Showing posts with label Tenth Amendment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tenth Amendment. Show all posts

The Tenth Amendment Is Not A Treaty Violation

by Jacob Sullum.           After Carol Anne Bond discovered that her husband had impregnated her best friend, the Pennsylvania microbiologist took revenge by spreading toxic chemicals on her ex-friend's car door, mailbox, and door knob. The poisonous prank was mostly ineffectual, inflicting nothing worse than a minor thumb burn. Bond's    ... MORE

Steve Stockman: Treaties Don't Trump The Constitution

Will the High Court overrule the Constitution?           Can the President and Senate invest the federal government with new powers not enumerated in the U.S. Constitution simply by signing and ratifying a treaty?  Can the treaty power be used to override the Tenth Amendment and render it a dead letter?  Those issues will be argued before   ... MORE

Tenth Amendment Center: Why Nullification?

Is it valid? Is it a good idea?     Writing for the Tenth Amendment Center, a person finds oneself spending a lot of time and pixels defending the concept of nullification.  These defenses generally take the form of answers to two questions.  Is nullification a legally valid concept?  Is nullification a good idea?  The arguments about whether or not   ... MORE

Is Nullification Gaining Mainstream Momentum?

by  Joe Wolverton, II.    Are states ready to flex their constitutional muscle and restrain the federal behemoth with the chains of the Constitution? Maybe. In an article published by Politico on July 27, Tal Kopan wrote, “Infuriated by what they see as the long arm of Washington reaching into their business, states are increasingly telling the    ... MORE

State Legislatures Strengthen Constitution Via Nullification

Keeping limits on an otherwise unlimited government.     On May 4, politicususa.com published “Republicans Shred the Constitution By Passing Unconstitutional Nullification Laws” by Rmuse. This article is nothing more than worship at the altar of the All-Powerful National Regime. The author’s supposition is that Republicans despise    ... MORE

San Diego Mayor Urges Jurors To Nullify Feds Law

The jury box is our last stand against tyranny.    The Mayor of San Diego is encouraging jurors of an upcoming medical marijuana case to reject the prosecution’s argument, which rests on the fact that marijuana is banned at the federal level. The feds arrested Ronnie Chang of San Marcos in 2009 for operating a medical marijuana dispensary. He   ... MORE

Stop The Imperialization Of America With Nullification

by Danny De Gracia, Washington Times.       Some say that President Barack Obama has been having a tough month, rocked by the scandals of Benghazi whistleblowers, IRS harassment and the Associated Press records probe. I say baloney. No matter what egregious offense or incompetence by the federal government erupt into public    ... MORE

Glenn Garvin: States' Rights? They Aren't Just For Racists

The people's esistance to federal tyranny. Trying to lend one of his 2008 campaign speeches a little literary heft, Barack Obama borrowed a phrase from William Faulkner: “The past isn’t dead and buried. In fact, it isn’t even past.” Four years later, the president may be considering himself, however ruefully, a prophet. For it looks like much of his second  ... MORE

State By State, A Nullification Domino Effect

by Joel Poindexter.  Throughout the Cold War, the prevailing fear of United States government was the domino effect. Simply put, if even one country fell to communism, it could start a chain reaction that would quickly consume the remainder of the free world in a totalitarian dragnet. This led to a doctrine of containment, wherein the U.S. government would    ... MORE

Joel Poindexter: Setting Things Straight On Nullification

The people's last stand against tyranny: just say no. Writing for Hot Air’s Green Room last week, Patrick Ishmael declared that nullification was unconstitutional and cited a number of columns from organizations such as The Heartlander and The Heritage Foundation as proof. Ishmael’s post was mostly a continuation of a discussion, as he calls it,   ... MORE