One Nation, Indivisible? A Study of Secession and the Constitution (Palo Alto, CA: Fultus, 2006), Amazon.com $21.99.

Is secession legal under the United States Constitution? "One Nation, Indivisible?" takes a fresh look at this old question by evaluating the key arguments of such anti-secession men as Daniel Webster and Abraham Lincoln, in light of reason, historical fact, the language of the Constitution, and the words of America's Founding Fathers. Modern anti-secession arguments are also examined, as are the questions of why Americans are becoming interested in secession once again, whether secession can be avoided, and how an American state might peacefully secede from the Union.

"...the earthly institutions of God for the expansion of His kingdom must at least resemble God's ways and serve His cause. Government, which is eminently wayward, cannot fall into this category. Moreover, since there is no unclaimed "territory" in the spiritual world, if a government is not in God's realm then it belongs to Satan's as a matter of simple logic." Bible and Government: Public Policy from a Christian Perspective is a provocative book that is sure to stimulate much conversation within the Evangelical community about this complex but vital issue. Policy pundits, university professors, and pastors have already given it favorable reviews. Should Christians Obey Government? The book offers a new perspective on how Christians should view the state and think about public policy. Public policies often entail annoying, costly, and even offensive impositions for Christians. Which public policies must be obeyed and which must be disobeyed? Is it immoral for Christians break the speed limit, hire an illegal alien, or not pay taxes? The book provides both interesting answers to such questions, utilizing a new paradigm for assessing Christian behavior in a pluralistic civil society. Public policy is examined using both economic analysis and biblical exegesis to challenge received statist orthodoxy among Evangelicalism, replacing it with a better understanding for how Christians should handle their relationship to civil government.

"The exploratory committee set out to find out if there would be support. To tell you the truth, I was reluctant to set up that committee, I was urged and did it. I was pleasantly surprised to find a number of people who responded and the fundraising went very well. I have been encouraged and I think a lot of people want to hear my message. I'm willing to deliver it.”

—Congressman Ron Paul
March 12, 2007 on C-SPAN's Washington Journal

Congressman Ron Paul of Texas, age 71, announced the creation of an exploratory committee to contemplate a Paul candidacy for the Republican Party Presidential ticket in 2008. Paul was a former Air Force surgeon and ob/gyn medical doctor. Paul is possessed of a profound commitment to statesmanship from principle. He is one of the few legislators in Congress that still considers the question, 'Does Congress even have this power pursuant to the Constitution?' Paul intransigently advocates constitutionally-limited government, a free-market economy, fiscal conservatism in public expenditures, a non-interventionist foreign policy of strategic independence, and a gold standard. He is pro-life, and holds to a consistent life ethic. He is steadfast defender of states' rights and the Tenth Amendment. Paul has served at various times on the House Banking Committee, and is founder and member of the The Liberty Committee.

Calhoun, John C., The Disquisition, H.L. Cheek, Jr. ed., (St. Augustines Press, 2006)

This volume provides the most economical and textually accurate version of Calhoun’s Disquisition available today. As a treatise, the Disquisition is one of the greatest and most enduring works of American politial thought, and a text of seminal importance to all students of American politics, history, philosophy, and law. In the Disquisition, Calhoun believed he had laid a “solid foundation for political science” through revitalizing popular rule. To complete his theoretical and practical mission, Calhoun attempts to explain the best example of the diffusion of authority and cultivation of liberty: the American Constitution. The fundamental law of the American republic provided, after all, the “interior structure” for regulating the shape and scope of government. As a guide for the states and the general government, the Constitution was also part of the “organism” that limited the centralization of authority and allowed for genuine popular rule; and it was Calhoun’s exposition of the connection between the moral demands of a properly constituted concept of popular rule and the need for practical ordering principles that is articulated in this book.

In his new book Conservatives Betrayed: How George W. Bush and Other Big Government Republicans Hijacked the Conservative Cause, Richard Viguerie describes the intellectual bankruptcy of so called "Big Government Conservatism," which is an oxymoronic cliche if there every was one. Neoconservatism was the product of Old Left New Dealers that vacated the Democratic Party because of its perceived social radicalism in the 1960s and 1970s. Though, they were very much content with the New Deal welfare state and hoped to make it operate more efficiently. They gravitated towards Republican-affiliated think tanks and the halls of political power. Eventually they became the core intellectual intelligentsia of the two successive Bush administrations, with neocons holding key cabinet positions. Neoconservatives laud the statemanship of Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman. Viguerie observes, "As he pursued these policies, President Bush's strongest support came from Big Government Republicans and from so-called 'Big Government conservatives' who, of course, are not conservatives at all." Viguerie continues,

Check out the Liberty Commitee from principled Congressmen dedicated to the advancement of liberty. It features information on proposed legislation, which should appeal to the Old Right constituency.

Republican Rep. Virgil Goode of Virginia's Fifth District, stirred controversy when he warned in a letter to a constiuent about the consequences of "many more Muslims" being elected to Congress unless immigration policies were tightened. Goode a former Democrat turned independent turned Republican is a member of Ron Paul's Liberty Committee, and has a reputation has a pro-life, pro-Christian, fiscal conservative in the House.

Prisoners’ Dilemma: Indefinite detention of terrorist suspects poses a challenge to America’s most valuable legal traditions by Gerald J. Russello, The American Conservative, December 18, 2006 Issue
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The recently enacted Military Commissions Act and the Supreme Court Hamdi and Hamdan decisions, which tried to limit the suspension of the protections of habeas corpus, have spurred a new series of debates on the somewhat technical legal area of habeas corpus. The Great Writ, as it was known, stands for a very simple principle: power does not trump. A government may wish to detain someone secretly, perhaps indefinitely, and may believe it has good reasons to do so, but in the Anglo-American legal tradition, that is not good enough. As the Supreme Court stated in 1969, the writ is “the fundamental instrument for safeguarding individual freedom against arbitrary and lawless state action.” The government therefore has to “produce the body for examination,” as the translation of the full Latin tag put it, before a magistrate and justify the reasons for the person’s detention.

The Washington Post reports in their article Dairy Industry Crushed Innovator Who Bested Price-Control System that "A maverick dairyman named Hein Hettinga started bottling his own milk and selling it for as much as 20 cents a gallon less than the competition, exercising his right to work outside the rigid system that has controlled U.S. milk production for almost 70 years." Eventually, this entrepreneurial hero was tackled by a corrupt cadre of Big Dairy lobbyists and Congressmen determined to keep the price-support system in place to the detriment of consumers. Hein Hettinga is a James J. Hill for the twenty-first century. Three cheers for American entrepreneurs that earn the fruits of their labor, and don't seek legal plunder, patronage and privilege from the state. The United States needs more men like Hein Hettinga.