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Live free or separate
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
Author: William J. Watkins, Jr.
Country: United States

"Though much has changed since Jefferson and Madison wrote the Kentucky and Virginia Resolves, the nature of power remains the same: power can only be checked by power. Under the Constitution the states were to be the guarantor of a limited national government." (8/98)

Would you move to the state of the free?
Source: Free State Project
Author: Claire Wolfe
Country: United States

"A whole state full of porcupine people? Wow. Don't tread on them. Or should that be, Don't tread on us? I'm not sure. But let's think seriously about this." (09/01)

Secede, New England!
Source: WorldNetDaily
Author: Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.
Country: United States

Looking at election results from the 2000 presidential primaries, Lew Rockwell suggests that most New Englanders have different values than the rest of the country and would be better off in a country of their own. (3/9/00)

Voters showed a divided America
Source: MSNBC
Country: United States

"Experts say they haven't seen this stark a division between rural and urban America for 100 years." (11/9/00)

Revolution coming?
Source: WorldNetDaily
Author: Alan Bock
Country: United States

Bock says that America has been struck by revolutionary political changes every 72 years throughout its history -- roughly, a human lifetime. If the pattern continues, the country is in for a sea change around 2004. (11/19/99)

It's time to part company
Source: WorldNetDaily
Author: Walter Williams
Country: United States

"Like a marriage that has gone bad, I believe there are enough irreconcilable differences between [Americans] who want to control and those want to be left alone that divorce is the only peaceable alternative.... The bottom line question for all of us is should we part company or continue trying to forcibly impose our wills on one another?" (9/13/00)

Combating federal tyranny
Source: World Net Daily
Author: Walter Williams
Country: United States

"Do we allow the federal government to determine the scope of its own powers? Should we accept whatever Congress, the White House and the courts say is constitutional?" (04/10/02)

Political movement eyes NH as possible 'invasion' point
Source: Union Leader
Author: Roger Talbot
State: NH, Country: United States

Interesting analysis of the Free State Project published by a NH newspaper. (10/12/02)

How Americans have changed
Source: Joseph Sobran
Author: Joseph Sobran
Country: United States

"Most Americans assume that the Civil War settled forever the question whether a state may secede from the Union. I suppose it shouldn’t surprise us that the majority of human beings think a question of principle can be settled by raw force. How often we say of foreigners that 'the only thing those people respect is power!' Maybe it’s true of us too." (06/18/02)

The Free State Project Organizing Council
Source: Free State Project
Country: United States

Meet the members of the Organizing Council of the Free State Project, "a plan in which 20,000 or more liberty-oriented people will move to a single state of the U.S. to secure a free society there."

Free State Project FAQ
Source: Free State Project
Country: United States
E-mail: jason.sorens@yale.edu

Answers to frequently asked questions about the Free State Project, "a plan in which 20,000 or more liberty-oriented people will move to a single state of the U.S. to secure a free society there." Questions and answers are updated frequently.

Announcement: the Free State Project
Source: The Libertarian Enterprise
Author: Jason Sorens
Country: United States

Original announcement and plans for the Free State Project, a plan by which 20,000 liberty activists move to a single state and restore it to liberty. (07/01)

What can 20,000 liberty activists accomplish?
Source: Free State Project
Author: Jason Sorens
Country: United States

"The Free State Project calls for 20,000 libertarians and fellow-travelers to move to a single state of the U.S. to create a free society there through the electoral process. The purpose of this essay is to examine more closely exactly what 20,000 people could accomplish in a state."

Ode to the Free State Project
Source: Free State Project
Author: Philip Denisch
Country: United States

A poem celebrating the idea of the Free State Project, a plan in which 20,000 or more liberty-oriented people will move to a single state of the United States to secure a free society there. (06/08/02)

The problem with incorporation as secession
Source: No Treason
Author: Rob Moody
Country: United States

"[R]esidents of a city can in effect 'secede' from a larger, more oppressive city or county government by incorporating and creating their own city government. While I agree that the idea has some merit, especially if you are trying to escape the clutches of a larger city, I would also caution you to be careful what you ask for, because you just might get it." (08/01)

Free state project state reports
Source: Free State Project
Country: United States

Reports on various states under consideration by the Free State Project.

State intiative and referendum report
Source: Free State Project
Author: Glen Hubbell
Country: United States

Report on initiative and referendum laws in states under consideration for the Free State Project. (09/02)

State homeownership and land report
Source: Free State Project
Author: Joe Littlejohn
Country: United States

Data relating to personal property issues in the states under consideration for the Free State Project, including number of small businesses, the self employed, property taxes, farm land, the percentage of government owned land per state, and rent control and zoning laws. (09/02)

Analyzing the freedom orientation of state populations
Source: Free State Project
Author: Tennyson
Country: United States

An analysis of freedm orientation of voters based on the voting behavior in the ten "FSP target states" in the 2000 elections. (12/19/02)

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