State efforts to roll back the federal health care law have drawn increasing attention to the principle of nullification in recent months. Â And as state legislators realize they possess a viable tool to fight unconstitutional federal overreach, they increasingly employ the idea to push back against other expansions of federal power, including TSA full body scanners, acts prohibiting medicinal marijuana, the Real ID Act, EPA regulations and federal gun laws.
Texas and California stand at the forefront of the nullification effort. The Lone Star State was the first state to propose legislation to completely nullify the federal health care law, and legislation to ban TSA scanners and groping searches enjoys broad support in the Texas legislature. California, on the other hand, has been actively defying both Congress and the Supreme Court on marijuana laws for years – and getting away with it.
James Madison said the states have a right and are duty bound to interpose when the feds overreach, and Thomas Jefferson called it, “the rightful remedy.†But what exactly is nullification? What are its origins and history?  Can states really declare a law unconstitutional, and null and void within its borders?
The Nullify Now! Tour answers these questions.
This national program presented by The Tenth Amendment Center and sponsored by The Foundation for a Free Society will roll into Austin, Texas on Saturday, April 16 and Los Angeles, California on May 28.  Featuring great speakers like Harvard and Columbia University educated historian Thomas Woods Jr. and best-selling author and historian Kevin Gutzman, the presentations will weave together a logical, moral, and constitutionally sound case for nullification through historical writings, case studies and the words of the founders.
“Nullification isn’t some mystical legal principle buried in cobweb covered books. It’s simply any action taken by states to resist unconstitutional federal acts,†Tenth Amendment Center communications director Mike Maharrey said. “It’s a principle rooted in the Constitution and woven into the philosophical foundation of the United States. The Nullify Now! presentation makes the case for nullification in an entertaining and captivating way.â€
For more information, log on towww.nullifynow.com/austin/ andwww.nullifynow.com/losangeles/
Whomever wrote this is at least half wrong, probably more than that. California as a State that nullifies? Hardly-it is one of the most "progressive" States–look at its record regarding environmental laws, welfare policies and much more–not to include the liberal 9th Circuit sits in SF and that State has produced Boxer, Feinstein, Nixon and many others who have promoted federal power. And Madison did not say those words-in his letters to Trist, written during the SC nullification crisis of the late 1820's, he stated that the nullifiers had been making clever interpretations, wrong interpretations, of his words. And the record for Texas and Jefferson is at least, mixed–anyone want to defend Jefferson's illegal Louisiana Purchase(which kicked the Tenth in the teeth)?
What does the constitution have to do with providing affordable health care for all Americans? Forgive me, maybe I'm a little dense.
OK…so the radical right is against what they refer to as Obamacare. I get that. What I DO NOT get is their alternative solution which is conspicuous by it's absence. They seem to have none. Does this mean that they are satisfied with the status quo? Let me assure you…I am not. Am I unique? Not on your life.
So…explain to me the "right" way to provide affordable health care….PLEASE TELL ME…I'm waiting. Oh…maybe you think there is no right way. That the government should stay out of health care altogether. It should be left up to that most benevolent corporate sector…The Insurance Companies. Forgive me….ROFLMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"Obamacare" is far from perfect. It doesn't go far enough. We needed a single-payer option which the president lacked the guts to insist upon.
OMG! Socialist!! Communist!! Yeah…that's what your thinkin'…right? Go ahead…I can take it.
Oh…I'm still waiting.
RTB The first question in your post is the answer to the question of health care. Providing health care for all breathing persons in this country is out of the scope of Federal Government power and responsibility. What Massachusetts did with their health care system is OK because it was the state that did it. Nullification or not, it is an unconstitutional overstepping of the enumerated powers.
So if you want that single payer health care with a mandate, move to Massachusetts or work to get it in your own state. At least that way those of us who don't want it can move where they don't have to put up with all of the negatives of socialized medicine and still stay in the US to get our health care.
And my comment was deleted why?
I'm waiting.
Still waiting for an explanation
There must be an extremely well-written algorithm monitoring this website. My comment, which took issue with nullification of the federal health care law, was gone in a nanosecond. My compliments to the programmers!
Oh, I shall not trouble this website again…fear not!
Howdy, RTB. Just as one 'bot to another, I'll respond;
First, the T.E.A. and T.A.C. bill will be 100 pages and no more.
Second, it will be published on the Internet for 72 hours before ANY committee or floor vote.
Third, Obamacare did nothing to correct the high costs of "health litigation". It could have easily, and the new bill will, by simply stating that ANY health care dispute automatically goes to mediation for 30 days, and then to binding arbitration. NO EXCEPTIONS. Trial lawyers can also act as mediators and as arbitrators. Any lawyer who challenges this loses his/her license to practice law. This one change should cut medical dispute costs, and medical liability insurance costs, by 50% .
Fourth, health insurers will be permitted to cross state lines and compete with each other. Competition encouraged, collusion or rate setting punished!
Fifth, States will be permitted to either self-administer, or join by compact with an adjoining State program , or join into a competitive corporate insurance program, or default to the national program.
Sixth, all contentious emotional issues ( aborticide, end of life counselling, etc) will be omitted and NOT be a public or tax payer funded item.
Seventh, all medical decisions will be left to the patient and doctor.
Eighth, only natural born or naturalized citizens will be eligible. Illegal aliens will be specifically excluded by public notices posted on all clinic, hospital, and practitioners' doors. In 5 States, that will cut healthcare costs by 50%
Ninth, every federal employee including Member of Congress, White House, and court employee will be REQUIRED to participate in the default national program.
Tenth, there will be NO WAIVERS.
( BTW , bots like you & me don't need health coverage so we won't get it. )