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To: Gondring

I read it to mean that Medina believes the opposite. That she believes that states have the Constitutional right to nullify federal laws. And that means she has never actually read the Constitution or skipped right past Article VI.


34 posted on 02/07/2010 6:41:28 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur
I read it to mean that Medina believes the opposite. That she believes that states have the Constitutional right to nullify federal laws.

Agreed...and the columnist disagreed with her.

And that means she has never actually read the Constitution or skipped right past Article VI.

No...it means that you're assuming the Bill of Rights doesn't exist. Article VI is limited to only the powers that the federal government actually is allowed, which is very limited and is granted at the will of The People through The States.

And as James Madison wrote: "But whilst the Constitutional compact remains undissolved, it must be executed according to the forms and provisions specified in the compact." This was written directly in the nullification correspondence with Daniel Webster and can't be ignored. And it is preposterous to suggest that the government outlined by the compact can have primacy of definition (i.e., self-definition) over those who executed the compact. That's like saying man has primacy over God, even though God is the Creator. The People are not Frankenstein with a self-defining, rampaging monster...the federal government must remain within its roles defined by the States as enumerated in the Constitution.

117 posted on 02/07/2010 8:18:01 AM PST by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: Non-Sequitur

“I read it to mean that Medina believes the opposite. That she believes that states have the Constitutional right to nullify federal laws. And that means she has never actually read the Constitution or skipped right past Article VI.”

You worry about Kansas. We’ll take care of Texas. Otherwise we’ll be seeing you on the Red River.


120 posted on 02/07/2010 8:24:36 AM PST by BnBlFlag (Deo Vindice/Semper Fidelis "Ya gotta saddle up your boys; Ya gotta draw a hard line")
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To: Non-Sequitur
Medina certainly continues to reveal her lack of understand ing governance and how it functions. She appears to be verbabley walking the talk people want to hear, homework is helpful in that respect, but her mind is not grasping what she's talking about as this once again evidences....not a good place to stand on for a Governorship position...she needs to have a grasp of these and does not. Easy to talk the tea-party talk, we all know what that is, but the harder questions of governance she is so very lacking.
414 posted on 02/09/2010 1:43:56 PM PST by caww
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