Nullification

James Madison did not Reject Nullification

by Robert Brown | May 31, 2017 | Eleven Years, Founders, James Madison, Nullification, Nullification

At some point in virtually every debate, an opponent of nullification will claim James Madison is on their side and that he opposed the practice. This despite the very clear meaning of the words in the Virginia Resolutions of 1798. So what gives? Was Madison for...

Mainstream Media Gets the Supremacy Clause and Nullification Wrong. Again.

by Mike Maharrey | Apr 29, 2017 | Anti-Commandeering Doctrine, Eleven Years, Media, Nullification, Nullification, Supremacy Clause

This is featured in today’s Tenther newsletter, which everyone in the nullification movement gets daily or weekly. Be one of them – and Become a member here to support the TAC. Last week, an Associated Press reporter interviewed me about a Texas bill that...

A Nullification Lesson from the Articles of Confederation

by Mike Maharrey | Jul 18, 2016 | Eleven Years, Nullification, Nullification, Strategy

The problems facing the United States under the Articles of Confederation provide a nullification lesson for today. When states refuse to cooperate, the central government can’t get a whole lot done. Under the Articles of Confederation, the Congress could not...

The Founders’ Word: Void

by Michael Boldin | May 1, 2016 | Eleven Years, Founding Principles, Nullification

When it comes to limits of federal power under the Constitution, the view of many Founding Fathers fits under the same theme. That is, federal acts outside of the Constitution are null and void. Oliver Ellsworth, the Supreme Court’s third Chief Justice, put it this...

This Week in History: Madison’s Virginia Resolutions Pass in 1798

by Mike Maharrey | Dec 22, 2015 | Eleven Years, James Madison, Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, Nullification, Nullification

By December 1798, the United States was in a full-blown constitutional crisis, and James Madison and Thomas Jefferson were stealthily leading the fight to push the federal government back within its prescribed limits. During the summer of that year, Congress passed...

What Should States Do When the Federal Government Usurps Power?

by Publius Huldah | Aug 4, 2015 | Nullification, Nullification, Strategy, Strategy

Advice From James Madison, Father of the U.S. Constitution. Federalist No. 46 (7th para) discusses how individual States or several States carry out resistance to the federal government’s unconstitutional encroachments. If a particular State takes an action which the...

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