Liberty or Obedience . . . .

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Real federalism or states' rights is all but nonexistent today, says Wilson, because "it presented the most powerful obstacle to the consolidation of irresponsible power – that consolidation which our forefathers decried as the greatest single threat to liberty.  For that reason, states' rights had to be covered under a blanket of lies and usurpations by those who thought they could rule us better than we can rule ourselves."  After the "Civil War," writes Wilson, "the American idea of consent of the governed was replaced by the European idea of obedience."

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https://www.lewrockwell.com/2016/09/thomas-dilorenzo/need-secession-nullification/