Posted on 12/12/2016 1:37:22 AM PST by Jacquerie
Subtitle: Nullification.
Publius Huldah. The Bill of Rights and Constitution are ignored. Our Framers advised two remedies to enforce the Constitution. First, James Madison said our constitution requires a virtuous people to select men of virtue and wisdom to office. The second remedy is “don’t go along with the lawlessness.” State legislatures must oppose violations of the Constitution instead of eagerly taking handouts to implement violations of our Constitution. (Timeline 36:00 – 43:00. View her speech here.)
Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison wrote that each state has the natural right to nullify unconstitutional federal laws on their own. Since the federal government is the creature of the states, the states are the final authority on whether their creature violated the compact. These are the framers’ words, and is proof they supported nullification by the states.
Don’t believe that the states are victims of federal tyranny. When they take money from the government for unconstitutional programs, they are “enthusiastic participants in federal tyranny.”
Rodney Dodsworth Response. Among the three, Jefferson, Hamilton, and Madison, only Jefferson advocated legislative nullification of congressional statutes. From the Kentucky Resolutions of 1799, "That the several states who formed that instrument (the Constitution), being sovereign and independent, have the unquestionable right to judge of its infraction; and, that a nullification, by those sovereignties, of all unauthorized acts done under color of that instrument, is the rightful remedy." Reason demands those who formed the compact, and not its administrators, be the judge of the extent of powers delegated to it. Despotism is assured when the general government is the exclusive judge of delegated powers.
Alexander Hamilton, in The Federalist #33: "When individuals form a governed society, the laws of that society must be the supreme regulator of their conduct."
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Article V ping!
Nullification ping. Easier, less danger, and if you had just five states leading the way, you would soon have enough to bring the nation to it’s constitutional knees.
A big help would be for States to prohibit allowing citizens to send money directly to the IRS bypassing the state. The States must control the funding of the Federal Government, allowing only those enumerated actions in Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution.
Nullification is being used today. We call them “Sanctuary Cities and States”.
OUTSTANDING post/response/education/history. Thanks very much, Jacquerie. BUMP-TO-THE-TOP!
“If the federal government should overreach the just bounds of its authority, making tyrannical use of its powers, the people, who created it, must appeal to the standard they have formed and correct the injury done to the Constitution as needs may suggest and prudence justify.” - Hamilton - Federalist #33
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQmznZFi8Ho
A lovely song. Prudence indeed.
— 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. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
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