Comments on: Does Nullification Lead to Anarchy?

By: Of Anarchy, Nullification, and Democracy – Massachusetts Tenth Amendment Center

Fri, 31 Dec 2010 07:44:24 +0000

[...] Recently, another writer for the Tenth Amendment Center posed the question, â€œDoes Nullification Lead to Anarchy?â€ The author, Steve Palmer of the Pennsylvania Tenth Amendment Center, answers the question in [...]

By: The Moral Liberal

The Moral Liberal — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 17:43:48 +0000

Another Win for the Pledge of Allegiance…

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By: Los

Los — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 00:18:01 +0000

Great job with this short discourse!! Thanks!

By: guest

guest — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 00:14:27 +0000

Ridiculous! Nullification is not focused around either complicated, impractical or easy. Nullification is based around law of the land. Take for example, Reconciliation is EASY route around the due process of congress but two dunderheads felt themselves far brighter than you or I — Thus they — Reid and OSoetoro did an end run around the Constitution –easy! But to borrow your term "impractical" as it leaves generations of Americans held captive to a very stupid idea to begin with and one that the majority did not want — So you see the best way to insure that our federal government adheres strictly to the word of law is through nullification – Not through seeking the easiest "uncomplicated route" Mr Soetoro and all his buggery from 20 January 2008 should in all fairness to America, our treasury and our future generations should very well be NULLIFIED en toto!

By: Roger Prather

Roger Prather — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 16:00:15 +0000

Anarchy is the absence of government, thus a purely anarchical society is a stateless society. So on its face, nullification is, by definition, not anarchical in nature. Nullification reinforces a society with governments because its debate revolves around the supremacy of one government over another. And while I can appreciate the "rule of law" argument, I agree with Philosopherking that if the Constitution is in fact the supreme law of the land, then adherence to the Constitution and its original intent is, in fact, evidence of a commitment to the rule of law. In any case, every anti-nullification argument I've heard fails because they usually imply that somehow the Constitution doesn't really mean what it says or that somehow the United States isn't really based on the classical liberal, Lockean philosophy of popular sovereignty. In reality, the Constitution is quite clear if effort is made to understand it, and the principle of popular sovereignty (of which nullification is an expression) is firmly embedded in Constitutional principle.

By: Does Nullification Lead to Anarchy? « Secession and Nullification â€” News & Information

Tue, 28 Dec 2010 13:30:27 +0000

[...] article by Steve Palmer on TenthAmendmentCenter.com. …Â One of the mostÂ common arguments against nullification has to do with anarchy and the [...]

By: RD Martin

RD Martin — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 07:20:54 +0000

Nullification would simplify our legislative system if used to thwart an out of control Federal Government. If the Feds knew the line was drawn and if crossed would be corrected it should limit some of the Federal nonsense.

A law, once a law, does not necessarily always have to be a law. if that were the case we would still have slavery, prohibition, FDR on his 14th term AND the Founding Fathers would not have made it possible to amend the constitution establishing guidelines for such.

If you had a chance to nullify slavery, would you have? Or, would you have said it has some sort of legislative protection asonce a law always a law?

By: 229Mick

229Mick — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 07:16:49 +0000

Simply not true. Nullification is the ONLY way that I've heard of to ENFORCE the constitution.

By: 229Mick

229Mick — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 07:11:05 +0000

Yea, I'm thinking that "Scenario C.1" is where we're living today…

By: randomwebizen

randomwebizen — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 01:49:18 +0000

Nullification – although interesting on a philosophical level – is highly impractical. The laws as they stand today are already complicated enough. Nullification will only add another layer of complexity that will only serve those who can afford teams of lawyers who can arbitrage the system to their benefit.