Good for Bill Niskanen at Cato for being the only member of the D.C. libertarian crowd to have the guts to speak the truth about nulllification and secession. On the Cato blog he repeats in his own language the fundamental argument in favor of states’ rights that was enunciated by Jefferson and the Jeffersonians: the central government cannot ever be trusted to be the arbiter of what limits will be placed on its own powers. Niskanen here is repeating a vintage Calhoun argument, and will probably be excoritated for it by all the silly Jaffa-ites who know nothing about Calhoun … Continue reading re: Niskanen, Nullification, and Secession