In 1830, when South Carolina politicians were arguing for “nullification†of a federal tariff they viewed as unconstitutional, the elderly James Madison penned a public response.
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Fertile Ground for Freedom
we must stop cowering in fear at the mere mention of federal power, as if the United States government were some omnipotent god to whom we must bow down and serve.
The Origins of Nullification
The defenders of centralized governmental power (a.k.a. tyranny) despise the Jeffersonian idea that the citizens of the states have a right to nullify what they believe to be unconstitutional federal laws.
Nullification: Individual and Collective Uses
The jury is one of the smallest, and therefore most significant, of duly constituted bodies involved in the application of laws and the mechanisms of justice.
Nullification Movement Gains Steam: Missouri Rejects Healthcare Mandates
Today, voters in Missouri helped bring the Jeffersonian principle of Nullification one step closer to the mainstream by approving Proposition C – the Health Care Freedom Act.
You’re Not Entitled To Your Own History
Progressives that promote nullification (state medical marijuana, for example) yet denounce it as a tactic, are little more than partisan frauds.
Interposition is the cousin of nullification
The two cousins of interposition and nullification stand upon the 10th Amendment as a protective defense against oppressive usurpation and attempts to end federalism.
Your Ticket to Freedom
If we continue doing the same things we’ve been doing, the march to tyranny isn’t stopping. Tom Woods’ Nullification gives us the blueprint, and NullifyNow brings us together to make it happen.
Usurpation: The Weapon By Which Free Governments Are Destroyed
Whenever the people who make up the federal government, either as individuals, as departments or as branches, exercise power not expressly delegated to them as specified in the Constitution, they are usurping the authority of either the states or the people.
Arizonans Dare To Defy The Feds Again!
Just when you thought Arizona couldn’t get any more provocative, or push any more of the federal government’s buttons, it looks like America’s 48th state may actually become the 15th state to adopt another very controversial law!
Insidious Usurpation
“I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.”
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