Freedom and Federalism

Freedom and Federalism

  by Thomas J. DiLorenzo

[Thomas DiLorenzo will be teaching Freedom and Federalism: The Libertarian States' Rights Tradition, a 4-week online course for the Mises Academy, February 2 – February 29.]

Americans — and much of the rest of the world — have been deprived of one of the most important means of establishing and maintaining a free society, namely, federalism or states' rights. It is not just an accident that states' rights have either been relegated to the memory hole, or denigrated as a tool of racists and other miscreants. The Jeffersonian states'-rights tradition was — and is — the key to understanding why Thomas Jefferson believed that the best government is that which governs least, and that a limited constitutional government was indeed possible.

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