When Americans Still Thought of Themselves as Masters Rather than Servants of their Own Government
August 17, 2023
They acted as citizens of the free, independent, and sovereign states and passed ordinances like this one, nullifying an unconstitutional plunder-by-tariff law, in the tradition of the Kentucky and Virginia Resolves of 1798, authored by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison respectively, to nullify John Adams’s Sedition Act which effectively outlawed free speech. The Sedition Act was the beginnings of totalitarianism in America, made into an art form by today’s Demo-Bolshevik party and its deep state co-conspirators.
Dr. Thomas DiLorenzo [send him mail] is a former professor of economics at Loyola University Maryland and a longtime member of the senior faculty of the Mises Institute. He is the author or co-author of eighteen books including The Real Lincoln; How Capitalism Saved America; Lincoln Unmasked; Hamilton's Curse; Organized Crime: The Unvarnished Truth About Government; The Problem with Socialism; and The Politically-Incorrect Guide to Economics.

