Decentralization and Secession

Ryan McMaken and Jeff Deist discuss the California ballot measure that would split the Golden State into three distinct parts.

Iowa's new restrictions on abortion offer the federal courts a new chance to take federalism and decentralization seriously. 

Jeff Deist interviews Titus Gebel on the Free Private Cities Project.

If a precedent of secession were accepted, then the disintegration of the central government could potentially continue ad infinitum.

California's governor refuses to send National Guard troops to the border on Trump's terms. State governments should refuse to send troops far more often than this. 

The Second Amendment was motivated by much earlier English ideas about decentralizing the power of the king. It was hardly the invention of Southern slave drivers. 

Even The Washington Post admits that secession movements are a key component in promoting peace and ending conflicts. 

Even if a section of the US were to today secede for some noble reason (i.e., not slavery), the outcome would still likely be invasion and war. 

Nationalism is not a unitary, monolithic phenomenon. If it is aggressive, we should oppose it; if liberatory, we should favor it. 

In a truly free society, the scope of government easily can be reduced to a much smaller domain than even many friends of freedom often think.