Americans should be free to choose. Regular elections are a critical feature of American democracy. If
you don’t like the way your town, state, or federal government is
headed, you know you’ll have a chance to change leadership at the ballot
box. Of course, if your state is slowing you up with high tax rates and
slow growth, there’s no ... MORE
Showing posts with label federalism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label federalism. Show all posts
Rich Tucker: The Right Kind Of Federalism
Americans should be free to choose. Regular elections are a critical feature of American democracy. If
you don’t like the way your town, state, or federal government is
headed, you know you’ll have a chance to change leadership at the ballot
box. Of course, if your state is slowing you up with high tax rates and
slow growth, there’s no ... MOREMayors Unanimously Call On Feds To Butt Out Of Pot Issue
In Las Vegas, mayors go rogue on legalization. The 180 elected officials attending the annual meeting of the U.S. conference of mayors in Sin City unanimously adopted a resolution
urging the federal government to let states and localities make their
own marijuana policy. The bipartisan sponsors—including, along with the
usual ... MOREMarijuana's March Toward Mainstream Confounds Feds
Many dynamics in play. It took 50 years for American attitudes about marijuana to zigzag from the paranoia of ‘‘Reefer Madness’’ to the excesses of Woodstock back to the hard line of ‘‘Just Say No.’’ The next 25 years took the nation from Bill Clinton, who famously ‘‘didn’t inhale,’’ to Barack Obama, who most emphatically did. And now, in just a ... MOREDavid A. Lieb: Nullification Efforts Mounting In The States
State resolve on gun rights, pot and other issues. Imagine the scenario: A federal agent attempts to arrest someone for illegally selling a machine gun. Instead, the federal agent is arrested — charged in a state court with the crime of enforcing federal gun laws. Farfetched? Not as much as you might think. The scenario would become ... MOREState 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 ... MORESan 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 ... MOREBob Unruh: States React To Fed Agenda With Nullification
Fighting back against government overreach. On the heels of a recent
poll that said 29 percent of registered voters believe an “armed
revolution” may be needed in America to restore liberties, a second poll said Americans already have figured out a solution – reject federal laws that are unconstitutional. Now it appears on issues ranging from ... MOREBarry Friedman: Guns, Pot And States Rights
Regulation is not prohibition. Kansas recently adopted a so-called "Second Amendment Protection Act." The law provides that Kansans can ignore any federal law that attempts to regulate guns in Kansas if the guns in question were made in Kansas and stay there. It would apply, for example, to a federal ban on assault weapons. Yet more ... MOREStop 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 ... MOREBob Unruh: Nullification Is America's Answer To Feds
Avoid revolution, just say no. On the heels of a poll that showed 29 percent of registered voters believe an “armed revolution” may be needed in America to restore liberties, a second poll indicates Americans already have figured out a solution – reject federal laws that are unconstitutional. The previous poll by Fairleigh Dickinson ... MOREJacob Sullum: The Cannabis Is Out Of The Bag
A fed crackdown would backfire. This week the Colorado General Assembly put the finishing
touches on
legislation aimed at taxing and regulating the commercial
distribution of marijuana for recreational use. The process has
been haunted by the fear that the federal government will try to
quash this momentous experiment in pharmacological ... MORERasmussen Poll: Nullification Goes Mainstream
by Mike Maharrey. Day after day, the media pounds out a relentless drumbeat against nullification. Pundits, commentators and so-called legal experts demonize it as
unconstitutional, villainize it as racist and trivialize it with slurs
like “wacky” and “kookie.” But while the political class continues to arrogantly ridicule Madison and Jefferson’s ... MOREFederalism Is Good Policy And Good Politics
by Daniel J. Mitchell. It’s a challenge to be a libertarian in Washington because you have to swim against the tide. The vast majority of people in town are looking for excuses to spend money and amass power, and a small band of us are trying to convince them that the federal government should be limited in size and scope. It may ... MORERich Tucker: Electric Cars And Crony Federalism
Competition is good— but only when it encourages a “race to the top.” That’s true in business and among the states as well. Competition can encourage policy innovation. For example, Pennsylvania carefully (but reasonably) regulates hydraulic fracturing, and it is reaping the benefits as companies create jobs by safely extracting oil and natural gas. ... MOREGrowing Number Of States Defy Federal Gun Laws
by Gregory Gwyn-Williams Jr. Shortly after voters in Colorado and Washington State approved measures that legalized the recreational use of marijuana, President Obama told Barbara Walters that his Justice Department would not prosecute pot users in these states. "We've got bigger fish to fry," Obama said. Although the state measures defy ... MORECharles C. W. Cooke: Repeal the 17th Amendment!
Re-empower the states. In our grubby, unhelpful political lexicon, certain words exist solely to end conversations. The most prominent such word is “racist.” Less popular, but by no means less potent, are “democracy” and “rights.” When welded together as “democratic rights,” the pair becomes all-powerful — strong enough to send ... MOREStates' Rights: Marijuana Becomes A Front Line Struggle
by David Kumbroch. The country’s drug laws are currently getting closely examined. Two states have already given the go-ahead to recreational marijuana with many more allowing medical marijuana. Now two federal bills – HB499 and HB501 – seek to turn over drug enforcement to the states and tax legal marijuana. When it comes to states’ rights ... MORERobert Robb: Obama And The Death Of Federalism
To the Founders, federalism was big deal. President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address illustrated what a dead letter federalism is among Democrats. Not that further illustration was necessary. Federalism holds that the national government should limit itself to things of truly national scope. Things that are primarily of local concern should be ... MOREThomas Woods: Is Nullification Unconstitutional?
The logic of sovereignty. Now on some level, we shouldn’t care: resisting violent people who claim the right to expropriate you and force you around is a natural right, and doesn’t rely on any parchment guarantee. But I for one prefer to address my opponents from every angle I can, including their own. These days we’re seeing a lot of ... MORE
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