Southern history • Federalism • States’ Rights Writer & veteran. Book on a lost tradition coming in 2027 “all we ask is to be let alone”
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In January 1956 a New York paper explained interposition to its readers as the doctrine of Jefferson and Madison, used by New England during the War of 1812. No outrage, no evil Southerners. Just the Southern argument stated plainly: “In other words, the Supreme Court is violating the Constitution, not the states which refuse to obey its mandate.”
The Daily Item, Port Chester, New York, January 11, 1956
Northerners did not fight to end slavery. Nor did Southerners fight to preserve it. How do we know? They wrote letters! Don't believe the lying historians.
"Few Union Soldiers professed to fight for racial equality."
What They Fought For, McPherson, 1994
An important element of the coup is the "police deployment at the court in Warsaw."
The Interior Minister deployed the police over a political squabble because he can. All police are national in Poland controlled by the Interior Minister. It is not a free country.
🚨🇵🇱 THE POLAND SITUATION. A BREAKDOWN:
How Poland ended up in a constitutional crisis with police at its highest court.
1. What started this?
Prime Minister Donald Tusk wants to reverse the judicial changes introduced under the previous PiS government, which he says compromised the independence of Poland’s courts.
A December 2025 EU court ruling strengthened his case, finding serious violations of judicial independence at the Constitutional Tribunal.
2. Why is President Nawrocki fighting back?
Nawrocki and PiS argue that Tusk is going beyond judicial reform and attempting to bring the courts under his own government's control.
The two sides are also fighting over judicial appointments, leaving the Constitutional Tribunal effectively paralysed.
3. What happened on Friday?
Tribunal president Bogdan Święczkowski was reportedly suspended, triggering protests and a police deployment at the court in Warsaw.
Nawrocki immediately abandoned his trip to Senegal and headed back to Poland.
Święczkowski's camp rejected the suspension as illegal, while PiS politicians accused the government of attempting a coup.
4. Why is this such a serious confrontation?
Poland now has two competing claims to constitutional legitimacy.
Tusk argues he is restoring judicial independence after years of political interference.
Nawrocki and PiS insist the government is violating the very constitutional order it claims to defend.
The central problem: Both sides claim to be protecting Poland's Constitution, while fundamentally disagreeing over who has the legal authority to act.
Writer: Oliver
Hard to understand why this is not a bigger concern. AI companies know models confidently give the wrong answer because of how they were designed. Seems society values truth less and less.
Hey @grok, given the fact that you often get things wrong and make things up, is it not surprising that you get asked so many questions?
$50 billion in federal coercion to move decisions about hospital locations to Washington. Mississippi and other states are considering surrendering more sovereignty.
Calling the Constitution a compact is not a "theory" by any definition of the word. Article VII, the State conventions, and descriptions of the founders all support compact. The academic label does not fit. Theory fits the nationalist explanation as they must interpret State conventions as a "one people" event.
“In the House of Representatives there is not the substance but the shadow only of representation; which can never produce proper information in the legislature, or inspire confidence in the people.”
—George Mason, 1787
That was at 30,000 people to one representative. Now it is >700,000 to one!
1972 Firing Line titled "The Southern Imagination"
It was interesting and a bit difficult to watch in places. Even 50 years is enough time for presentism to enable one to be unfair.
Talking about the "fusion of the two cultures" William F. Buckley asks, if this means people in Mississippi "will exhibit less of sort of the Confederate syndrome. Will they care less to preserve the home of Jefferson Davis"?
Eudora Welty answers, "I mean I'm not a bit interested in preserving the home of Jefferson Davis. Because I'm interested in human beings that are alive and I mean I respect history for what it is. I'm speaking as a worker somebody who likes to write."
"Sen. Barry Goldwater raises his hand with S.C. Senator Strom Thurmond at the Greenville-Spartanburg Airport. Sen. Goldwater is the Republican nominee for President of the United States and Sen. Thurmond, who recently joined the Republican Party, is present to support Goldwater. A Confederate flag is visible in the crowd along with a sign reading Dixie Goes Goldwater."
Several people have been acting like conservative Republicans only existed in the South. They say one of the 20th century’s leading defenders of limited government and the original Constitution was not one because he does not pass some purity test.
Booker T. Washington was born a slave and lived through Reconstruction. In Up From Slavery he wrote, “I felt that the Reconstruction policy, so far as it related to my race, was in a large measure on a false foundation, was artificial and forced.”
Modern historians ignore him.
In 1964 Barry Goldwater told the Senate he found no Constitutional basis for federal regulation of public accommodations or private hiring, and he voted against the Civil Rights Act.
Was he the last conservative Republican?
Yes, sir. Calhoun said it well in his speech opposing the Force Bill in the Senate in February of 1833.
"Whatever interest obtains possession of the Government, will, from the nature of things, be in favor of the powers, and against the limitations imposed by the constitution, and will resort to every device that can be imagined to remove those restraints.”
In 1832 Daniel Webster, the North’s great nationalist, said “The President has no authority to blockade Charleston.” In April 1861 Lincoln blockaded Charleston with Congress out of session. Webster had been dead nine years.
"Ice cream is one of the few foods with a federal definition."
No food should have a "federal" definition. It should be seen as Un-American and tyrannical. That being said, the essay is great, especially if you are an ice cream lover.
