Nullification: The Rightful Remedy | The Tenth Amendment
What is Nullification?
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What Is It? State nullification is the idea that the states can and must refuse to enforce unconstitutional federal laws.
Says Who? Says Thomas Jefferson, among other distinguished Americans. His draft of the Kentucky Resolutions of 1798 first introduced the word “nullification” into American political life, and follow-up resolutions in 1799 employed Jefferson’s formulation that “nullification…is the rightful remedy” when the federal government reaches beyond its constitutional powers. In the Virginia Resolutions of 1798, James Madison said the states were “duty bound to resist” when the federal government violated the Constitution.
But Jefferson didn’t invent the idea. Federalist supporters of the Constitution at the Virginia ratifying convention of 1788 assured Virginians that they would be “exonerated” should the federal government attempt to impose “any supplementary condition” upon them – in other words, if it tried to exercise a power over and above the ones the states had delegated to it. Patrick Henry and later Jefferson himself elaborated on these safeguards that Virginians had been assured of at their ratifying convention.
What’s the Argument for It? Here’s an extremely basic summary:
1) The states preceded the Union. The Declaration of Independence speaks of “free and independent states” that “have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do.”
Article II of the Articles of Confederation says the states “retain their sovereignty, freedom, and independence”; they must have enjoyed that sovereignty in the past in order for them to “retain” it in 1781 when the Articles were officially adopted. The ratification of the Constitution was accomplished not by a single, national vote, but by the individual ratifications of the various states, each assembled in convention.
2) In the American system no government is sovereign. The peoples of the states are the sovereigns. It is they who apportion powers between themselves, their state governments, and the federal government. In doing so they are not impairing their sovereignty in any way. To the contrary, they are exercising it.
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Permalink Reply by ॐH●ȴȴɣѾͼͽᵭ on
been preaching it for years bro ;)
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Permalink Reply by Troy on
Not surprised,
BUT...
Have we let go? Or do we still cling to false solution?
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who's we?..who's clinging?..
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As a general statement of We the People of this country.
Go Red team!
Go Blue!
Be Gary with me just this once!
For one example.
Deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
WE CONSENT!
Nullification is the only solution. The Federal government will not right it's self; nor can we elect correction.
-That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
And accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
We are accustomed to doing the same thing over and over again and expect a different result.
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lol..be gary with me ;)
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Permalink Reply by Capt. Dave on HOW MANY TIMES MUST YOU BE TOLD
"DOING THE SAME THING OVER AND OVER IN THE SAME WAY AND EXPECTING A DIFFERENT RESULT IN THE OUT COME IS JUST CLEAR INSANITY"
OH yes!, and have you noticed that the U S A Government, (USA Corporation) also has been doing the same thing, the same way with regard to ( Policy Abroad ). It seems the USA Corporation wants to buy friends, Or BULLY the other corporation that rule the other countries into submitting. HELL-O ,," IT DOESN'T WORK".
We the people need to stand up and stop the ( INSANITY), WE can not afford to stand Ideally by and watch this HAPPEN ANY MORE.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,
Deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
Deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
Deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
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- "The only time a mistake becomes a failure is when we look for someone to blame."
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Permalink Reply by James Φοίνιξ on
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