Again, Privately we (South Carolina) threatened to kick his a$% if he tried. Jackson, is from the up state of South Carolina. We knew his thinking.
Calhoun and his family lived a few miles down the road from me. We know all the stories very well down here.
This my friend is what lead to the big war. The war of Northern Aggression.
We by god did something instead of sitting around talking about it.
You, as we say, are fixing to see what we can do again real soon.
The South Carolina State house has passed it and the Senate is looking to pass the bill that would make it the first state in the country to nullify the Affordable Care Act.
The Supremacy Clause reads, “This constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof…shall be the supreme law of the land…” The clause itself lends no constitutionality to any law. It only states that if a law is passed which is in compliance with the Constitution, then it is the law of the land. Since the Constitution grants no power to the federal government to regulate health care, this power is retained by the states. Therefore no federal law to that effect is Constitutional. In short, Obamacare is unconstitutional and thus it is clearly not the law of the land.
end of story. Nothing left to do but wait on the Government threats, just like Jacksons sent.
Guess what we are going to tell the Government.....again.
I’ve no objection to South Carolina doing this, other than to remark that many of the other individual states are more than sympathetic to the idea.