Jefferson’s Arguments for Nullification and Limited Government »
Posted By populist 9 months, 3 weeks ago in Political NewsThe doctrine of nullification, i.e., the idea that states have the right to unilaterally render void an act of the federal government that they perceive to be contrary to the Constitution, finds its origins in the writings of Thomas Jefferson, most notably his 1798 Kentucky Resolutions, written to protest the Federalist Congress’s passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts.
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CHAM9 months, 3 weeks ago
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Being an eternal optimist, I do believe their is a third choice.
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I say that third choice is punishment. Now before you say we can't punish those that have too much power, I remind you of the adage that to eat an elephant, you have to do it one bite at a time.
We have failed to punish the lawbreakers, because they were too this or too that. But we can punish the Party they rode in on. It takes a lot to build a party. If destroyed it would be almost impossible to rebuilt.
We can shun a political part into insignificance simply by shunning them at the polls. As long as we have elections this can be done. If we never again vote for a Republican Candidate, the Republican Party will disappear. It truly is that simple.
We need to be building an Independent Coalition while we are getting rid of the GOP. And we need to tell the remaining parties that one of them will be next. The next would be the Democrats and they haven't started off too well. But then again we haven't decided to get rid of the Republicans yet either.
Our action together will shape The Democrats action for the future. That is if we join together. If we don't then I wouldn't expect them to change for the better, but I would expect them to change for the worse.-
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nostalgia9 months, 3 weeks ago
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Both of the parties have to go
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The Democrats are bailing out the very same big players that Paulson was bailing out
Both of the parties have been bought and paid
Reform of one party is not going to happen
Voters need to term limit every elected official
As long as the majority of voters remain uninformed they will continue to vote for candidates based upon the letter "D" or "R" after the name on the ballot
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CRYMTYPHON9 months, 2 weeks ago
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In 5th grade I stood up and declared, voice quavering with courage, 'I don't like Jefferson'.
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- to one of those scary history teachers who live their subject, and have cats named Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson.
But I mumbled and the teacher thought I was asking to go to the bathroom.
So I will say it clearly now:
Jefferson is flawed; he risks his life for freedom but keeps slaves. He is a libertarian,
- and a libertarian society denies the concept of community , that your rights end where another man's begin.
You can reduce the organization of the US to sovereign states;
this will give greater freedom to some, and less freedom to most.
I do not fear the federal marshal as much as I fear the local town sherrif.
The rights not specified by the constitution, devolve to the states; but who told you they stop there?
They don't. They keep going and become the rights of the
individual voters.
And we the voters specificaly use the federal government to protect ourselves from the local factory that would pollute our air, the local religious group that would dominate our schools, the local political machine that would own our elections.
It is our right and we will not surrender it.-
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berkeley9 months, 2 weeks ago
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but we can have it both ways.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsidiarity
right now, the feds have intruded into individual liberty far more than the locals have, so the first step is to bring light to those areas, and that's going to take a while because we still have the best congress money can buy.
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