Secede: Honoring Jefferson by Joseph Sobran
Jefferson’s 1798 Kentucky Resolutions — one of his most important writings, neglected and disparaged today — took the Declaration’s self-evident truths a step further. He argued that the “free and independent states,” as parties to the Constitution, must not allow the Federal Government to monopolize constitutional interpretation; for if that government could define the extent of its own powers, the whole purpose of the Constitution would be defeated.

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