Eleven Years
Paths to Nullification: In Law vs in Practice
Pundits, members of the media, and legal experts generally focus exclusively on nullification in a purely legal sense, specifically on a particular process created and proposed by South Carolina Sen. John C. Calhoun during the so-called tariff crisis in the late 1820s...
What Criminal Laws are Congress Authorized To Make?
The Constitution grants to Congress only limited powers to make criminal laws. These powers fall into five categories: a) those made pursuant to express authorizations for four specific crimes; b) those made under the โnecessary and properโ clause; c) those made for...
Nullification Made Easy
What did our Framers really say we must do when the federal government usurps power? They never said, โWhen the federal government ignores the Constitution, amend the Constitution.” They never said, โFile a lawsuit and let federal judges decide.โ Instead, they...
Left and Right Agree: Don’t Nullify Because it Will Work!
From left to right, the mainstream agrees. Don’t nullify. Why? Because it might actually work. Last year, Ian Millhiser, Senior Fellow at the George Soros-funded Center for American Progress Action Fund and Editor of Justice at the...