Liberty Pen: Tom Woods- 'Restoring American Federalism'

Source:Liberty Pen- Anarcho-Libertarian radio talk show host Tom Woods.

"Andrew Napolitano, Thomas E Woods Jr and Kevin R Gutzman discuss the deteriorating state of American federalism and how the states could use nullification to trim federal powers back toward their Constitutional design.  Liberty Pen"

From Liberty Pen

If you look at what limited government and what federalism is, it's about limiting what government can do. Which is how we protect our constitutional and individual rights.

So government couldn't break in our house with out a search warrant or for no reason. Couldn't take our property away from us, force us to live somewhere, in an attempt to limit how big government can be how much authority it has. 

A lot of people (perhaps especially on the Far-Left) when they terms like federalism and federalists, they think of people who believe in a big national government, that doesn't trust states and localities to govern  for the people and for individuals to make their own decisions. But it's Unitarians who can be socialist, as well as nationalist, or come from other big government, authoritarian political factions, who believe in the superstate concept when it comes to government. A huge national government that handles most, if not all of the governing in the country. 

Federalists believe in a national government, but that it should be a Federal Government, where government is decentralized and bottom-up, not top-down. Where the national government is there to handle national affairs like foreign policy, national security, interstate commerce and law enforcement, but where the states and localities handle their own domestic affairs, just as long as they're within the Constitution.