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NULLIFICATION

The Forgotten Check on the Federal Government

by Jake Towne

May 2010

In questions of powers, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind himdown from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.- Thomas Jefferson


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Origins of Nullification in America

Past Examples

Present Day Use of Nullification

Agenda

Lecture available athttp://towneforcongress.com/economy/nullification-the-forgotten-check-on-the-federal-government-1
http://towneforcongress.com/economy/nullification-the-forgotten-check-on-the-federal-government-1http://towneforcongress.com/economy/nullification-the-forgotten-check-on-the-federal-government-1


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Origins of Nullification in America

State Sovereignty

Virginia Ratifying Convention of 1788

Tenth AmendmentThe powers not delegated to the United States by

the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States,

are reserved to the States respectively, or to thepeople.www.TenthAmendmentCenter.com
http://www.tenthamendmentcenter.com/http://www.tenthamendmentcenter.com/


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Kentucky & Virginia Resolutions of 1798

KY: ...whensoever the

general government assumes

undelegated powers, its actsare unauthoritative, void, andof no forcehttp://www.constitution.org/cons/kent1798.htm

Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 a crime to publish "false, scandalous, and malicious writing" against

the government authorized the president to deport any resident alien considered

"dangerous to the peace and safety of the United States."
http://www.constitution.org/cons/kent1798.htmhttp://www.constitution.org/cons/kent1798.htm


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Kentucky & Virginia Resolutions of 1798

VA: That this Assembly doth explicitly andperemptorily declare, that it views the powers of thefederal government... as limited by the plain sense

and intention of the instrument constituting the compact;as no further valid that they are authorized by the grantsenumerated in that compact; and that in case of adeliberate, palpable, and dangerous exercise of otherpowers, not granted by the said compact, the states whoare parties thereto, have the right, and are in duty

bound, to interpose for arresting the progress of theevil, and for maintaining within their respective limits, theauthorities, rights and liberties appertaining to them.

http://www.constitution.org/cons/virg1798.htm
http://www.constitution.org/cons/virg1798.htmhttp://www.constitution.org/cons/virg1798.htm


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Fugitive Slave Act of 1850Abolitionists favored nullification

Military Conscription of Minors

South Carolina's NullificationOrdinance voided the Tariffs of 1828

and 1832Calling up the militia to invade

Canada during the War of 1812

Other Past Examples


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Stripped of all its covering, thenaked question is, whether ours is afederal or a consolidatedgovernment; a constitutional or

absolute one; a government restingultimately on the solid basis of thesovereignty of the States or on theunrestrained will of a majority; a formof government, as in all otherunlimited ones, in which injustice,and violence, and force must finallyprevail.

- Vice President John Calhoun, 1831

http://pages.prodigy.net/krtq73aa/calhoun.htm

Calhoun's Fort Hill Address
http://pages.prodigy.net/krtq73aa/calhoun.htmhttp://pages.prodigy.net/krtq73aa/calhoun.htm


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Federal Health Care Bill


http://www.tenthamendmentcenter.com/nullification/health-care/


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Medicinal Marijuana Legalization California has already nullified federal

lawREAL ID signed into federal law in 2005

States were to implement in early 2008 All 50 states filed extensions 25 states passed acts to not comply


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REAL_ID_Act
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REAL_ID_Acthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REAL_ID_Act


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Bring Home the Guard - Specifiesgovernors have the ability to deny NationalGuard deployments

Montana's Firearms Freedom Act waspassed in April

Federal gun and ammo regulationsare now voided inside of Montana


http://data.opi.mt.gov/bills/2009/billhtml/HB0246.htm
http://data.opi.mt.gov/bills/2009/billhtml/HB0246.htmhttp://data.opi.mt.gov/bills/2009/billhtml/HB0246.htm


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Nullification by Dr. Thomas Woods

http://www.thomasewoods.com/blog/nullification/http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=754

Upcoming Book
http://www.thomasewoods.com/blog/nullification/http://www.thomasewoods.com/blog/nullification/


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Q&A


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Graphics Acknowledgements

Unless listed below, all photos are either mine or public domain.The Towne 2010 As Good As Gold logo was created by Derek Wyatt The Jake Towne for United States Congress logo was created by Anthony Geist

Copyright Jake Towne, 2010. Any portion of this presentation that could be copyrighted

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