Tennessee bill takes on NSA encryption-breaking facility at Oak Ridge
The state-level effort to turn off water and electricity to the National Security Agency (NSA) got a major boost today as legislators in Tennessee introduced a bill to ban the state from providing material support to the federal agency. A long-standing secretive NSA...
Understanding James Madison’s Notes on Nullification
Many opponents of nullification point James Madison’s 1835 Notes on Nullification and claim he opposed the doctrine in all situations. The Madison-penned Virginia Resolutions of 1798, along with his Virginia Report of 1800, serve as foundational documents in...
Free at Last: Martin Luther King Jr. and Nullification
You express a great deal of anxiety over our willingness to break laws. This is certainly a legitimate concern. Since we so diligently urge people to obey the Supreme Court’s decision of 1954 outlawing segregation in public schools, at first glance it may seem...