A number of states, including Missouri, Kansas, and Alaska either have passed or are considering state laws intended to invalidate federal statutes, most notably, federal gun laws. Many have modeled ...
HARTFORD -- Democratic state attorney general candidate George Jepsen Thursday called on his Republican opponent, Martha Dean, to renounce the "doctrine of nullification," which is based on the idea ...
In 1958, in Cooper v. Aaron, the Supreme Court, ensnared in the white-hot cauldron of southern resistance to federal authority, the Supremacy Clause and the abolition of segregation, delivered a ...
The Doctrine of Nullification is the assertion that any state government which doesn’t like a federal law is free to violate it. It began with tariff disputes and formed the central legal argument the ...
HARTFORD -- Democratic state attorney general candidate George Jepsen Thursday called on his Republican opponent, Martha Dean, to renounce the "doctrine of nullification," which is based on the idea ...
With state legislatures back in session, legislators are looking for options to reassert their legitimate role in the constitutional structure of federalism. Sadly, a few otherwise well-intentioned ...
COLUMBIA — The message was pretty simple. It was written in all-capitalized white letters on blue shirts: "NULLIFY." About 50 people, many of them wearing those shirts, gathered in the S.C. Statehouse ...
back to the doctrine of nullification advanced by Calhoun and his supporters in pre-civil-war days, and speciously reasons that since that doctrine precipitated one civil war its reappearance must ...
MONTGOMERY, Alabama – Sen. Dick Brewbaker cringed when he was asked if his opposition to so-called Common Core Standards for schools represents an example of what some have called a new wave of ...
In December 1828, South Carolina had 5,000 copies of John C. Calhoun’s “Exposition and Protest” printed and distributed throughout the state. A defiant document, Calhoun’s “Exposition” outlined a ...
The doctrine of nullification, a pernicious pillar of southern resistance to the federal government in the 19th and 20th centuries, promotes a constitutional theory that was emphatically rejected by ...
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