As I said before, states could not be compelled to enforce federal law.
But the bottom line is that many Southerners viewed such nullification as a form of tyranny by federal and Northern state officials, much like some of us view many of President Obama’s executive actions as a form of tyranny.
And we all know that the South never, ever even considered nullification in any way, shape or form. </sarcasm>
“As I said before, states could not be compelled to enforce federal law.”
But some states were failing to enforce their own laws, as well.
“And we all know that the South never, ever even considered nullification in any way, shape or form. </sarcasm>”
I think it was my mother who first told me “two wrongs don’t make a right”.
In any case, I was simply trying to use the words of the secessionists to convey what might have been their interpretation of various actions by federal and state officials as “tyrannical.”