{"id":351470,"date":"2018-03-09T17:32:54","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T16:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/nullification-lewrockwell\/"},"modified":"2018-03-09T17:32:54","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T16:32:54","slug":"nullification-lewrockwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/nullification-lewrockwell\/","title":{"rendered":"Nullification – LewRockwell"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I\u2019ve been spending this week in New York City with my daughter Veronica, so I\u2019ve taken time off from writing.<\/p>\n

But man, that Jeff Sessions.<\/p>\n

Just the other day, he said:<\/p>\n

There is no nullification. There is no secession. Federal law is \u201cthe supreme law of the land.\u201d\u00a0I would invite any doubters to go to Gettysburg, to the tombstones of John C. Calhoun and Abraham Lincoln. This matter has been settled.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

As the author of\u00a0Nullification<\/em><\/a>, I am driven insane by fact-free platitudes like this.<\/p>\n

(Nullification is the idea that the states have the right\u00a0to prevent the enforcement of unconstitutional federal laws.)<\/p>\n


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Let\u2019s be clear: Sessions is making precisely the argument that every left-liberal outfit on earth, from ThinkProgress to the Southern Poverty Law Center,\u00a0was making not ten years ago, when the modern nullification movement was getting started.<\/p>\n

All we heard was: Supremacy Clause! John C. Calhoun! Civil War!<\/p>\n

Regarding Calhoun, I\u2019m convinced the reason they mention him is (1) most Americans have no idea who he is, and (2) he\u2019s been sufficiently demonized in the minds of those who have, that anything he\u2019s associated with becomes automatically suspect.<\/p>\n

They never used Thomas Jefferson\u2019s name, even though the first full-fledged articulation of the idea of nullification, including the very word itself, came from his pen. (Why they wouldn\u2019t want to associate Thomas Jefferson\u2019s name with an idea they seek to demonize is an exercise I leave to the student.)<\/p>\n

On the Civil War: the Civil War was not fought over nullification, and in fact\u00a0at the time of the war it was the northern states that had much more recently been engaged…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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I\u2019ve been spending this week in New York City with my daughter Veronica, so I\u2019ve taken time off from writing. But man, that Jeff Sessions. Just the other day, he said: There is no nullification. There is no secession. Federal law is \u201cthe supreme law of the land.\u201d\u00a0I would invite any doubters to go to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-351470","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}