I have to comment on Steve Horwitz’s uninformed comment about states’ rights in his explanation of why he, as a supposed “libertarian,” does not support the most libertarian presidential candidate since Grover Cleveland — Ron Paul. Thomas Jefferson was the real father of the states’ rights doctrine, especially with his “Kentucky Resolve of 1798.” Horwitz obviously knows nothing about this. Jefferson was not so stupid, uneducated, and naive, as to believe that “states’ rights” meant that “states have rights,” as Horwitz says. The fundamental idea was that the federal government could never be trusted to enforce the Constituton. The citizens … Continue reading re: Libertarianism is About the State