Dick Morris Joins Rachel Maddow’s Anti-Nullification Choir
It’s nearly impossible to have a healthy debate when people keep clouding the issues with bad history, character assassination and outright lies.
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A History Lesson on Nullification for Jeff Sessions and Tom McClintock
Opponents of the immigration sanctuary movement have taken to denouncing these efforts as “nullification.” But in so-doing, they often get the history completely wrong.
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Today in History: Alcohol Prohibition Repealed
On December 5, 1933, the 18th amendment was repealed by the 21st amendment, ending alcohol prohibition. What most people don’t know is that state and local nullification created the atmosphere where this repeal was inevitable.
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Today in History: Kentucky Resolutions Signed on Nov. 16, 1798
The “Principles of ’98” formalized the principles of nullification as the rightful remedy when the federal government oversteps its authority.
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Gun Rights Supporters Can Learn a Lesson from Marijuana Activists
They couldn’t enforce the marijuana laws once people and states simply started ignoring them. They won’t be able to enforce the gun laws either.
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Modern Nullification: A Winning Policy
A leading law professor explains that nullification through non-cooperation is not just legal, but effective.
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James Madison did not Reject Nullification
Madison never opposed nullification, only its misuse and misapplication. He was opposed to a specific process created by South Carolina, not the underlying principles.
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Mainstream Media Gets the Supremacy Clause and Nullification Wrong. Again.
While a recent AP report was better than most in recent years, it still parroted some of the same old arguments.
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Bending an AP Reporter’s Frame on Nullification
Yesterday, I talked to an AP reporter about a Texas bill that would set the stage to block some federal actions, and I bent her “frame” in the process.
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Federal Report: State Noncompliance is Nullification
Obviously, nullification by failure of state cooperation and acquiesced-in nullification in homes have serious implications.
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The Jefferson Letters, Vol. 1: The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions
Following, you will find the ten letters between these three men reprinted in their entirety.
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Book Review: Understanding James Madison’s Notes on Nullification
When opponents of nullification fail to associate it with slavery and segregation, they turn to taking quotes of its proponents out of context, such as claiming Madison later opposed it in his famous Notes on Nullification.
They’re wrong.
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