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Jun 20, 2023 | commonplace.online | Christian Fritz |C. J. Martin |Timothy Messer-Kruse |Dror Goldberg

*  *  *  *As originally conceived, interposition rested on the idea that state legislatures were essential monitors of the equilibrium of federalism—and a state legislature’s declaration that acts of the federal government were misguided and even unconstitutional was a legitimate form of political resistance. Nullification, however, whether of a Supreme Court’s decision or an act of Congress was never contemplated by the framers as a power enjoyed by any single state.

Jun 6, 2023 | commonplace.online | C. J. Martin |Christian Fritz |Timothy Messer-Kruse |Dror Goldberg

This is the story of how a visit by Frederick Douglass to south-central Massachusetts, its leadup and aftermath, epitomizes the movement’s ability to spread in the region. Save to PDFPrint“A beautiful . . . sun shone upon” the Unitarian meeting house in Uxbridge, Massachusetts on June 25, 1845.

Feb 17, 2023 | aier.org | Dror Goldberg

PrintProfessor Nicolás Cachanosky argues that the amendment proposed in the Senate in December 2022 would have made the Federal Reserve more political. The amendment mainly proposed to change the appointment process for Federal Reserve Bank presidents. Instead of being elected by representatives of the local economy and appointees of the Board of Governors in Washington, they would be appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate, just like Board members.