Comments on: Interposition, Nullification and the Political Thought of James Madison

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Thu, 25 Mar 2010 22:42:20 +0000

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By: Rick

Rick — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 04:11:31 +0000

We're over due I suppose is what your saying? 1 by land – 2 by sea, the cry will come giving us direction, then GOD help us as HE always does.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:04:31 +0000

The underpinings of the Constitution are the unalienable rights of Man, as based upon fundamental Christion principles, namely that government is merely the servant pf the People; intended to protect, not to dictate or attempt to "homogenize" (as today). Our Founding Fathers emphatically acknowledged this as they debated what role denominational Christianity was to play in this new Republic. Their collective intent was to assure minimal intrusion by any form of central government. It is the compact of the States which collectively gives Limited power to the Federal government~~~~ The antithetical Progressive influence of the late 1800's beginning with Teddy Roosevelt (actuallly, beginning with the secular humanist philosophy of Ingersoll earler in the 1800's), has gradually twisted our vision of the essential Christian principles that are the very bedrock upon which our Constitution stands.
Our present grassroots Revolution under this administration exemplifies precisely what our Fouders saw would happen under the tryanny of a central government which became stronger than the collective will of the People. Jeffeson even said tha it would require a revolution every 200 yrs to maintain our freedom. It has been 234 years….

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:23:26 +0000

"The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite"
–James Madison

By: Air_Force_Brat

Air_Force_Brat — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 03:21:50 +0000

Here's the link I referenced a minute ago:

http://hillbuzz.org/2010/03/15/question-if-the-go…

Apologies for the long link, but I haven't yet learned how to do the tiny.url thing. Scroll to Post #12. Hopefully I haven't violated copyright or anything.

By: Air_Force_Brat

Air_Force_Brat — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 03:16:46 +0000

There was a disturbing comment on the Hillbuzz.org website recently (Michael, I e-mailed you a copy, fyi) from someone claiming to have interned for two Supreme Court Justices. This poster stated that if Obamacare passes, all the states' resolutions and legislation nullifying the federal mandate(s) will be moot; the feds will apparently NOT ALLOW the states to opt out. I'll post the link momentarily.

Are they TRYING to drive this nation into another civil war?

By: Rick

Rick — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:53:57 +0000

From reading the posts made here you would think some don't believe the states have the right of interposition or nullification.

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 04:48:51 +0000

It was not Madison who "undermined the long term prospects" for the Constitution of 1787 or the Founding Principles. It was the New England States that threatened to secede to protect their financial interests in the Hartford Convention of 1814 while Madison was President. The War with the British was hitting the New England wallet. Washington warned in 1796 (farewell address) against sectional parties seeking advantage over other sections. In 1860, the sectional Republican party elected Lincoln for the express purpose of cramming the Morrill Tariff down the throats of the southern states. The Southern states already paid 80% of all federal revenues. Now, the Republicans planned to roughly double the take. Lincoln said pay up or else. The war was inevitable. http://georgiaheritagecouncil.org/site2/commentar...

By: MichaelBoldin

MichaelBoldin — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 02:36:17 +0000

I have read the Detached Memoranda. 1) it's date is not exactly known. 2) it says nothing of interposition or nullification – it was about religious freedom. As Gutzman writes in his paper, Madison opposed state interposition in most prominently in 1836…

By: Fritz

Fritz — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 02:26:47 +0000

I believe the author has it wrong. In the "Detached Memoranda" published about 1820, Madison rejects the Nullification concept in favor of a strong central government whose legislation cannot be overturned by the states. Jefferson on the other hand, belived in nullification as a legitimate process to maintain state autonomy.