All Posts Tagged With: "seditious libel"

Nullification: The Jeffersonian Brake on Government

Thinkers in the classical-liberal tradition, to the extent that they support a coercive state at all, speak routinely of the importance of keeping government strictly limited. To that end, the United States has a written Constitution, which enumerates the relatively brief list of tasks entrusted to the federal government and whose Tenth Amendment makes clear [...]

1Mar2002 | Thomas E. Woods Jr. | 1 comment | Continued

Liberating the Jury

Nathan Lapp is a dairy farmer and coordinator of the New York Fully Informed Jury Association in Cassadaga, New York. When disputes arise over who has the freedom to do what, fundamental principles of fairness, or “right reason,” as Roman philosopher Cicero phrased it, must come into play.[1] For this task, the founders recommended trial [...]

1Mar1998 | Nathan Lapp | 1 comment | Continued
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