To: Who is John Galt?
The SEdition Acts constitutionality was never challenged so the Court never ruled on its constitutionality. Now did it?
1,801 posted on
12/11/2003 2:09:40 PM PST by
justshutupandtakeit
(America's Enemies foreign and domestic agree: Bush must be destroyed.)
To: justshutupandtakeit
The SEdition Acts constitutionality was never challenged so the Court never ruled on its constitutionality. Now did it? What are you suggesting - that no law can be unconstitutional unless the high court rules it to be so?
(I can hardly wait to hear this one... ;>)
1,814 posted on
12/11/2003 3:37:32 PM PST by
Who is John Galt?
("The founders DID NOT campaign nor run ads attacking their opponents" - justshutupandtakeit 12/10/03)
To: justshutupandtakeit
I will invoke a principal that has not been in vogue for close to 150 years. It is called nullification. The Alien and Sedition Acts were nullified in the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions written by Jefferson and Madison in protest against the Alien and Sedition Acts. However, the point is nullification is extremely mute after the Civil War. The belief in nullification was common before the 1860's because it was widely believed that union of the states was a voluntary one, and the states still retained their sovereignty. Nullification was routine, and if I remember correctly one of the governors of PA nullified a federal court order and called in state troops to stop the execution of it. So much for Bill Pryor for actually understanding states rights.
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