The concept of nullification has been around since the founding. Mr Jefferson and Mr Madison wrote the Virginia and Kentucky resolution which nullified Mr Adam’s Sedition Act. So, if Mr’s Jefferson and Madison thought the process to be constitutional, who are we to argue?
Keep in mind that a federal court will probably never grant power back to the states since the concept of incorporation became prevalent. And hey, why give power back when you can use it as a huge baseball bat to beat the peasantry over the head at every turn?
So, based on the over whelming disadvantage that we are placed in by our “federal overlords,” we need some strong governors and state legislatures to take up the nullification process and begin whittling the general gov’t down to size (see enumerated powers in that little document known as “The Constitution of the United States of America”).
May The God of Heaven save the good people of the Untied States of America and may He judge in Holy Righteousness those who have led us into slavery.
I agree. When the States came together and formed the Union and the Federal government, they delegated certain very limited rights to it and kept the rest of the rights to themselves. Because the States created the Union and the Federal government, they are all parties to that compact, and in cases were there are many parties to a compact and no common judge, they each have the right to judge for themselves that the contract is being held to. The Federal government has no such power because it was created by the compact and is not part to it.
based on the over whelming disadvantage that we are placed in by our “federal overlords,” we need some strong governors and state legislatures to take up the nullification process and begin whittling the general gov’t down to size
Texas is about to swear just such a Governor in, Gregg Abbott. As Texas AG he has been doing a pretty damn good job of fighting nobama’s Gubmit. Timid he is not!
.....which is only relevant if we are to accept that the rulings of a federal court are valid in cases in which the limitations of federal powers are the issue. We need to stop thinking that. They won't let you sit on a jury if you so much as KNOW any of the parties, let alone work for them.
As Judge Napolitano likes to say, nullification is inherently constitutional because the states formed the federal government not the other way around.
The federal judiciary cannot grant power it does not have. The state legislatures and the people deserve exactly what they get.
The slow march to death will not stop until we decide that the possibility of death is preferable to the slow march.