Secession and Decentralization: Footnotes
1 See Steve Sailer, “Secession Studies,” Takimag.com [March, 4, 2020].
2 For more on the impossibility of economic calculation under socialism see Ludwig von Mises, Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth (Auburn, Ala: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 1980).
3 See Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Democracy—The God That Failed: The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy, and Natural Order (New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 2001), pp. 229-230
4 Joseph Sobran, “The Reluctant Anarchist,” Sobran's [December 2002]: 3-6.
5 See Hoppe, Democracy—The God That Failed: The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy, and Natural Order (New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 2001), p. 107.
6 See Murray N. Rothbard, For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto (New York: Macmillan, 1978), p. 48.
7 For a detailed summary of the clauses that were exploited to expand federal power see Thomas E. Woods Jr., Nullification: How to Resist Federal Tyranny in the 21st Century (Washington: Regnery, 2010), chap. 2.
8 For more on Abraham Lincoln's abuse of power and disregard for the constitution, see Thomas J. DiLorenzo The Real Lincoln: a New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and Unnecessary War (New York: Three Rivers Press, 2003); see also idem, Lincoln Unmasked: What You're Not Supposed to Know About Dishonest Abe (New York: Three Rivers Press, 2006).
9 See Thomas Jefferson to William Branch Giles, December 26, 1825, in The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, vol. X, ed. Paul Leicester Ford (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1899), 355.
10 For a detailed explanation of how democracy raises the social degree of time-preference and leads to a larger state, see Hoppe, Democracy—The God That Failed: The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy, and Natural Order (New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 2001).
11 See Jeff Deist, “Secession Begins At Home,” Mises.org [January 30<sup>th</sup>, 2015].
12 See Hoppe, Democracy—The God That Failed: The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy, and Natural Order (New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 2001), pp. 288-289: Hoppe reminds us that “neither the original American Revolution nor the American Constitution were the result of the will of the majority of the population. A third of the American colonists were actually Tories, and another third was occupied with daily routines and did not care either way. No more than a third of the colonists were actually committed to and supportive of the revolution, yet they carried the day. And as far as the Constitution is concerned, the overwhelming majority of the American public was opposed to its adoption, and its ratification represented more of a coup d'état by a tiny minority than the general will. All revolutions, whether good or bad, are started by minorities; and the secessionist route toward social revolution, which necessarily involves the breaking-away of a smaller number of people from a larger one, takes explicit cognizance of this important fact.”
13 See Rothbard, The Ethics of Liberty (New York University Press, 1998), p. 182.
14 See Hoppe, Democracy—The God That Failed: The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy, and Natural Order (New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 2001), pp. 114-115.
15 See idem, The Economics and Ethics of Private Property (Auburn, AL: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2006), pp. 73-74; see also ibid., pp. 101-103; idem, Democracy—The God That Failed: The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy, and Natural Order (New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 2001), pp. 109-110.
16 Hoppe, Democracy—The God That Failed: The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy, and Natural Order (New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 2001), pp. 116-117.
17 See ibid.
18 For more on how money is established see Ludwig von Mises, The Theory of Money and Credit (Irvington-on-Hudson, N.Y.: Foundation for Economic Education, 1971).
19 See DiLorenzo The Real Lincoln: a New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and Unnecessary War (New York: Three Rivers Press, 2003), pp. 251-254
20 For more on this see Thomas E. Woods, Jr., “The Great Gold Robbery of 1933,” Mises.org [August 13<sup>th</sup>, 2008].
21 For more on the destruction of the classical gold standard and establishment of the current cartelized monetary order see Rothbard, What has Government Done to Our Money? (San Rafael, Calif.: Libertarian Publishers, 1985); see also Hoppe, The Economics and Ethics of Private Property (Auburn, AL: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2006), pp. 107-115.
22 For more on the benefits of gold as money see Rothbard, The Case for a 100 Percent Gold Dollar (Meriden, Conn.: Cobden Press, 1984); see also Ron Paul and Lewis Lehrman, The Case for Gold (San Francisco: Cato Institute, 1983); for proposals to return to a classical gold standard see Mises, The Theory of Money and Credit (Irvington-on-Hudson, N.Y.: Foundation for Economic Education, 1971, chap. 23 and Robert P. Murphy, “Putting The Country Back on Gold,” Mises.org [July 28<sup>th</sup>, 2011].
23 See Mises, Liberalism (San Francisco: Cobden Press, 1985), pp. 108-110.
24 On the low skills of post-1965 immigrants as a result of the 1965 act and the propensity of immigrants to wind up on welfare see Peter Brimelow, Alien Nation: Common Sense About America's Immigration Disaster (New York: Random House, 1995), pp. 141-151, 287-288; for more on immigration as a tool to expand state power see idem, "Immigration Is The Viagra Of The State"—A Libertarian Case Against Immigration, Vdare.com [June 4<sup>th</sup>, 2008].
25 See idem, Alien Nation: Common Sense About America's Immigration Disaster (New York: Random House, 1995), pp. 72-73.
26 See ibid, p. 281.
27 See ibid, p. 67.
28 See ibid, p. 77.
29 See William H. Frey, “The US will become 'minority white' in 2045, Census projects,” Brookings.edu [March 14<sup>th</sup>, 2018].
30 For more on this see Hoppe, Democracy—The God That Failed: The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy, and Natural Order (New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 2001), chap. 7, “On Free Immigration and Forced Integration;” see also Rothbard, "Nations by Consent: Decomposing the Nation-State." Journal of Libertarian Studies 11, No. 1 (1994): 1–10.
31 See Mises, Liberalism (San Francisco: Cobden Press, 1985), p. 110: “So far as the right of self-determination was given effect at all, and wherever it would have been permitted to take effect, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, it led or would have led to the formation of states composed of a single nationality (i.e., people speaking the same language) and to the dissolution of states composed of several nationalities, but only as a consequence of the free choice of those entitled to participate in the plebiscite. The formation of states comprising all the members of a national group was the result of the exercise of the right of self-determination, not its purpose.”
32 See Rothbard, “The Vital Importance of Separation,” Rothbard-Rockwell Report 5, no. 4 [April 1994]: 5.
33 For the results of multiracial and multiethnic societies see Brimelow, Alien Nation: Common Sense About America's Immigration Disaster (New York: Random House, 1995), pp. 124-127;
34 For more on the breakup of Yugoslavia see Tomislav Sunic, "Woodrow Wilson's Defeat in Yugoslavia: The End of a Multicultural Utopia." Journal of Libertarian Studies 11, No. 1 (1994): 34–43.
35 See Jared Taylor, White Identity: Racial Consciousness in the 21st Century (New Century Books, 2011), pp. 126-127.
36 See Hoppe, Democracy—The God That Failed: The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy, and Natural Order (New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 2001), pp. 113-114.
37 See Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr., Against the Left: A Rothbardian Libertarianism (Auburn, Ala: Rockwell Communications, 2019), p. 109.
38 For more on race relations between blacks and whites see Jared Taylor, Paved With Good Intentions: The Failure of Race Relations in Contemporary America (New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1993).
39 See idem, The Manufactured Crisis of Police Racism,” Amren.com [June 5<sup>th</sup>, 2020].
40 See Brimelow, Alien Nation: Common Sense About America's Immigration Disaster (New York: Random House, 1995), pp. 69-72
41 See ibid, pp. xi-xii.
42 See ibid, pp. 16, 148.
43 See Jeff Deist, “Secession Begins At Home,” Mises.org [January 30<sup>th</sup>, 2015].
44 See The Tom Woods Show, Ep. 1565 Decentralization and Secession: Jeff Deist on the Only Way Forward [January 8<sup>th</sup>, 2020].
45 See Hoppe, Democracy—The God That Failed: The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy, and Natural Order (New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 2001), pp. 290-291.
46 See ibid, 291-292.
47 See Thomas E. Woods Jr., Nullification: How to Resist Federal Tyranny in the 21st Century (Washington: Regnery, 2010), p. 3
48 For more on the history of nullification in the United States, see ibid., especially chaps 2, 3 and 4. Woods briefly summarizes the essentials: “In short, the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of 1798, along with the follow-up Report of 1800 and Kentucky Resolutions of 1799, held that (1) the federal government had been created when sovereign states granted it afew enumerated powers; (2) any powers not so delegated remain reserved to the states or the people, a point expressly stated in the Tenth Amendment; and (3) should the federal government exercise a power it had not been delegated, the states ought to interpose—that is, they ought to stand between their own people on the one side and the federal government's unconstitutional law on the other.” (p. 56)
49 See ibid, p. 16.
50 See Rothbard, “How and How Not to Desocialize,” Review of Austrian Economics 6, no. 1 (1992), on the former Soviet Union, Rothbard writes: “I owe to Dr. Yuri Maltsev the information that the much-vaunted Shatalin plan for the Soviet Union, which was supposed to bring about privatization and free markets in 500 days, was really not privatization at all. Apparently, existing government firms in each industry, instead of being actually privatized — that is, owned by private individuals — would have been owned (or 80 percent owned) by other firms in the same industry. This would mean that giant state monopoly firms would continue to be state monopoly firms, and be self-perpetuating oligarchies rather than truly privately owned. Privatization must mean private property.”; for a similar critique of desocialization in Germany see Hoppe, Desocialization in a United Germany,” Review of Austrian Economics 5, no. 2 (1991).
51 For more on determining legitimate titles to private property see Rothbard, The Ethics of Liberty (New York University Press, 1998), chap. 9, Rothbard writes: “To sum up, for any property currently claimed and used: (a) if we know clearly that there was no criminal origin to its current title, then obviously the current title is legitimate, just and valid; (b) if we don't know whether the current title had any criminal origins, but can't find out either way, then the hypothetically "unowned" property reverts instantaneously and justly to its current possessor; (c) if we do know that the title is originally criminal, but can't find the victim or his heirs, then (c1) if the current title-holder was not the criminal aggressor against the property, then it reverts to him justly as the first owner of a hypothetically unowned property. But (c2) if the current titleholder is himself the criminal or one of the criminals who stole the property, then clearly he is properly to be deprived of it, and it then reverts to the first man who takes it out of its unowned state and appropriates it for his use. And finally, (d) if the current title is the result of crime, and the victim or his heirs can be found, then the title properly reverts immediately to the latter, without compensation to the criminal or to the other holders of the unjust title.” (pp.58-59).
52 See Hoppe, Democracy—The God That Failed: The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy, and Natural Order (New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 2001), p. 126.
53 See ibid, p. 136.
54 See Rothbard, “How and How Not to Desocialize,” Review of Austrian Economics 6, no. 1 (1992).
55 See ibid.
56 See “USMCA More Info : The John Birch Society,” https://jbs.org/nau/usmca/usmca-info/; The John Birch Society got right to the heart of the matter: “the primary issue is not the economic impact of the USMCA, good or bad, but its destructive impact on U.S. sovereignty.”
57 See Rothbard, "Nations by Consent: Decomposing the Nation-State." Journal of Libertarian Studies 11, No. 1 (1994): 1–10
58 See Deist, “For a New Libertarian,” Mises.org [July 28, 2017].
59 See Rothbard, "Nations by Consent: Decomposing the Nation-State." Journal of Libertarian Studies 11, No. 1 (1994): 1–10
60 See Deist, “Secession Begins At Home,” Mises.org [January 30<sup>th</sup>, 2015].
61 See idem, “For a New Libertarian,” Mises.org [July 28, 2017]: “[T]he idea of universal libertarian principles became mixed up with the idea of universal libertarian politics. Live and let live was replaced with the notion of universal libertarian doctrine, often coupled with a cultural element. And because of this, libertarians often fall into the trap of sounding like conservatives and progressives who imagine themselves qualified to dictate political arrangements everywhere on earth. But what’s libertarian about telling other countries what to do? Shouldn’t our political goal should be radical self-determination, not universal values?”