House Targets Federal Laws -- "Nullification lives again"

Nullification is a funny word. Often it has a negative cast, as when Washington power hogs run around nullifying every law that made this society the good things that it is today. They set off new atom bombs against the bill of rights one after another.... by we, the people, can do some nullifying of our own.

"Jury nullification" has a distinguished history. No, it's not what judges do when they criminally order juries to limit themselves to weighing whether the evidence is sufficient to convict, but rather the phenomenal power that juries have to judge both law and fact in the Anglo-American system of justice system.

Since the States originally united under the Constitution they have had not only the ability but the gravely serious obligation to pass only just, moral laws in Congress ad to repeal any that are found un-Constitutional, but also to nullify bad federal law individually at the state level -- to declare in effect that it's been found wrong or proper and that the state in question isn't bound by it.

A daring proposition compared to the rest of history, it's true, but that's what America is made of! Nowadays of course the fedgov is totally lawless and defiant about it so nullification is gaining ground in many state legislatures. It is simply great to see it happening in the historically feisty sovereign state of South Carolina.... but extremely alarming that its politicians are talking Constitutional amendment (superfluous if they'll read the federal and state Constitutions) and a Constitutional convention! The latter phrase has a noble ring to it, but it is truly one of the most noxious ideas in the political lexicon. Any such gathering would be totally out of control and almost certainly wreck the way of life our forefathers bled and died for.

Please write your state legislators (and others like the troublesome speaker of the SC House) and politely demand that they vote against the above monsters and instead begin seriously funding and enforcing the existing laws, most notably the Bill of Rights.

http://www.thestate.com/2011/02/17/1699059/house-targets-federal-laws.html

House Targets Federal Laws

cf.:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_Five_of_the_United_States_Constitution

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Most days the PN Executive Director sends out summaries of news from Carolina Journal online. The Journal is from the John Locke Foundation in N.C. which is neoconservative but offers much news of politically incorrect interest. (The PN is of course Carolinas-based but not Carolinacentric!) Among its good offerings are notices of "Citizens' Constitutional Workshops" around North Carolina. Here's one happening tomorrow:

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Anybody care to attend and report? This blogger has never been to one.

Have you gathered yet that I embrace paleo-conservatism, i.e. conservatism in its original form that was healthily contemptuous of political lies, vanity and grandiose notions? We of the "paleo" stripe oppose between 99 and 100 percent of the warmaking that goes on.... because war is a game that -- in our studied opinion and the founding fathers' -- only politicians win, and that always detrimental to the real public good. We were embattled when the so-called War on Terror was started up but now find a majority of Americans are on record as opposing the abovementioned aggressions. (Where did all those magnetic ribbons go??)

Since the PN is all about tax and fiscal realism, surely this news break is germane. Can you think of better uses for that 20 billion a month.... Do you honestly think the Afghanis need or deserve to have that money spent on them more than yourself and your family?

http://blacklistednews.com/Afghan-war-costs-%24300-million-a-day%3A-Pentagon/12697/0/3/3/Y/M.html

Afghan war costs $300 million a day: Pentagon

Now, for those who haven't had a good laugh today: "We're not going to be running up the credit card anymore"!

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/02/15/obama-holds-press-conference-discuss-budget/






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