This book should be required reading to graduate high school in America!
I highly recommend this book to understand the power and duty of the individual sovereign states to keep the federal government within it's constitutional constraints!
A contemporary example would be Virginia's 2012 law to NOT comply with the warrant-less indefinite detention of American citizens provisions in the NDAA. ("Virginia will not cooperate with NDAA detention")
Nullification: How to Resist Federal Tyranny in the 21st Century
"Citizens across the country are fed up with the politicians in Washington telling us how to live our lives—and then sticking us with the bill. But what can we do? Actually, we can just say “no.” As New York Times bestselling author Thomas E. Woods, Jr., explains, “nullification” allows states to reject unconstitutional federal laws."
Buy it on Amazon here: Nullification: How to Resist Federal Tyranny in the 21st Century
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death! - Patrick Henry, March 23, 1775
I am duty bound by my enlisted oath, though I am no longer active duty, to inform you of what I consider an affront to our Constitution. Learn more at cybermick.com/ndaa-2012.php!