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The Slippery Slope of Nullification
Townhall.com ^ | January 19, 2016 | Hank Adler

Posted on 01/19/2016 7:16:18 PM PST by Kaslin

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Who’s nullifying what???


21 posted on 01/19/2016 8:56:07 PM PST by RebelTex
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To: Kaslin
(Note that neither a respectful letter requesting amplification of the ability of this university to move forward with their housing plan under the Fair Housing Act of 1968 did not result in any response nor did an e-mail request for information regarding current housing demographics. [...])

The double-negative makes it difficult to understand the meaning of this sentence.

Regards,

22 posted on 01/19/2016 8:57:37 PM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: semimojo
The Founders expected the federal government and the state governments to honor the Constitution as it was understood at the time of adoption.

Which level of government do you consider to have proper constitutional authority to regulate intrastate education, health care and drug policies - fedgov or the states?

23 posted on 01/19/2016 9:38:07 PM PST by Ken H
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(Note that neither a respectful letter requesting amplification of the ability of this university to move forward with their housing plan under the Fair Housing Act of 1968 nor did an e-mail request for information regarding current housing demographics, result in any response . [...])

There, fixed it.

;>D


24 posted on 01/19/2016 9:39:03 PM PST by RebelTex
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To: Kaslin
Nullification is a constitutional theory that a state has the right to nullify, or invalidate, any federal law which that state has deemed unconstitutional.

It's theory like birtherism and the idea you don't really have to pay your income taxes, an invalid theory.

25 posted on 01/19/2016 9:41:26 PM PST by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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To: Kaslin

Nullification is not a theory. It’s a legal principle.

The states formed the federal government. Not the other way around. A state can nullify whatever federal law it wants. The federal government then has to decide if and how it will enforce said law.


26 posted on 01/19/2016 9:56:19 PM PST by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
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Amen


27 posted on 01/19/2016 9:59:28 PM PST by Hoosier-Daddy ("Washington, DC. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious")
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To: Kaslin

Article Six requires every officer of government, at every level of government, to swear an oath to support the Constitution.

If keeping that oath amounts to nullification, so be it.

But the real issue should be the oath, and the Constitution, not the act of nullification.

It is one of the first principles of western civilization that laws which violate the laws of nature are null and void. And it is a first principle of our republic that all laws which violate the Constitution are no law at all. They must be ignored if our office-holders are to keep their own oaths. If this is not true, then the oath itself is a mockery and a crime, as Chief Justice John Marshall pointed out so strongly and clearly in the earliest days of the republic.


28 posted on 01/19/2016 10:04:05 PM PST by EternalVigilance
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Where does nullification by government and governmental entities lead? It leads to nullification by our institutions and ultimately, perhaps to nullification in everyday life by everyday folk, the classic slippery slope.

The 55MPH speed limit did that decades ago.

29 posted on 01/19/2016 11:11:27 PM PST by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: Kaslin

bfl


30 posted on 01/19/2016 11:23:59 PM PST by snooter55 (People may doubt what you say, but they will always believe what you do)
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To: Kaslin
This column is a case study of Lockean principles applied to our current woeful condition.

The societal compact, the Constitutional government designed to secure our liberty is no more; it is dissolved. Society is expected to follow the compact which the government ignores.

In its place is raw violence on our freedoms. The creature in Washington is in a State of Nature and State of War with the people.

The sovereign people have every God-given right to frame government. We must reassert free government very soon.

There is little time.

31 posted on 01/20/2016 1:04:42 AM PST by Jacquerie (Article V - Our de facto constitution needs a deep cleaning.)
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The school blew off the request in two different ways.
To answer the author’s question, yes there has been de facto segregation for many years - not campus wide....


32 posted on 01/20/2016 1:23:39 AM PST by scrabblehack
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To: Kaslin

I’m a big fan of nullification until we get FedGov back inside its proper constitutional limits. Better too much nullification than no recourse at all when thugs like Obama take power.


33 posted on 01/20/2016 1:28:11 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: rustbucket; 4CJ

Ping


34 posted on 01/20/2016 1:32:37 AM PST by StoneWall Brigade (Vote Tom Hoefling of America's Party for President the only party to restore the Republic)
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To: Impy; rustbucket; 4CJ; stainlessbanner; PeaRidge; EternalVigilance

Impy, my good friend you should realize that the Northern State’s basically used Nullification in regards to the fugitive slave heck even right now States like Colorado, Washington or any other states where post is legalized is basically nullifying the Drug law’s not that I agree with that but that’s what their I think the tools of Nullification should be used when they’ve used every last measure to enforce the originally of the Constitution, I do think it can be misused or abused but I think giving the alternatives if such tools as Nullification aren’t their then you look down at the barrel of full dictatorship.


35 posted on 01/20/2016 2:08:44 AM PST by StoneWall Brigade (Vote Tom Hoefling of America's Party for President the only party to restore the Republic)
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bump


36 posted on 01/20/2016 4:12:45 AM PST by foreverfree
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To: Kaslin

Nullification is what the Feral Gubmint is doing now anyway...


37 posted on 01/20/2016 4:43:58 AM PST by rottndog ('Live Free Or Die' Ain't just words on a bumber sticker...or a tagline.)
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To: Kaslin

nullification, in the 1800s, states attempted to ignore Federal legislation ranging from the Alien & Sedition Acts to certain federal tariffs to the Fugitive Slave Act. The theory has never been legally upheld by federal courts.

Isn’t that the point? Do you expect the Federal Tyrant to agree that they have over stepped their authority?


38 posted on 01/20/2016 8:02:35 AM PST by Glad2bnuts (Go Cruz GO, scare the RINO's to death)
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To: Jacquerie

Totally agree, yet hopeful citizens look to a Presidential candidate as a means to help solve the solution, when we need to look at city/county/State solutions. The Federal government is an occupying force, living not within the Constitution(treaty) with the States, but expecting the Citizen to scrape and bow before every edict.


39 posted on 01/20/2016 8:06:33 AM PST by Glad2bnuts (Go Cruz GO, scare the RINO's to death)
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To: RebelTex
(Note that neither a respectful letter requesting amplification of the ability of this university to move forward with their housing plan under the Fair Housing Act of 1968 nor did an e-mail request for information regarding current housing demographics, resulted in any response . [...])

Fixed your fix!

Regards,

40 posted on 01/20/2016 8:48:37 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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