Template:Doctrine of nullification
Nullification
The doctrine of nullification from the State's point of view has been held that states have the right to declare null and void any federal law that the State deem unconstitutional. The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions declared in 1799 that nullification was to be the rightful remedy used by the states for all unauthorized acts done under the pretext of the Constitution.[1]
That was possible when those "States remained “as foreign to each other as Mexico is to Canada"[2] even after the ratification of the Constitution and the citizens of those state were still Not a party to that constitution. The States were truly independent in 1799 but by 1899 that was no longer true and by 1999 it could not have gotten farther from the truth.
While the process of the modern assent into bondage can be debated the out come is self evident. Today the federal government has an increased interest in its citizens whose labor, property and children have all become surety for its debt like in the days of the bondage of Egypt.
Because a citizen in the United States is no longer the same as the natural citizens in states that had once been Republics. Neither the State governments have the capacity to assert such rights as the Doctrine of Nullification nor can citizens of the U.S. as residents in those States practically defend their right through Jury Nullification either. That right was once a key element of liberty in America and freedom from unwarranted usurpation from either State or Federal governments.
The United States government and those to whom they are indebted have now a prior right to protect their interests. The citizens have become a surety for debt among other compromised positions that have come about over many generations of degeneration, by avarice and sloth, and a myriad of benefits by way of a mire of moral compromises.
For true nullification there must be a real call for a large social group of people who are bound by virtuous "social bonds" alone. Decades of "Legal charity" has bankrupted the character of society required for a free society. The people must breath life into the care for one another by attending to what Christ called the "weightier matters".
Americans have forgotten the art of liberty but there is a way back that is found by creating the social bonds that have connected all free societies throughout the history of mankind and had once made America great.
- ↑ Nullification, in United States constitutional history, is a legal theory that a state has the right to nullify, or invalidate, any federal laws which that state has deemed unconstitutional with respect to the United States Constitution. The theory of nullification has never been legally upheld by federal courts.
- ↑ Clark's Summary of American Law, Constitutional Law.