Vol. 40, No. 05
03/11/2024
Secession? Why Not Nullification?
America’s federal system of government provides constitutional means to rein in unconstitutional federal overreach and secure liberty. Those means include nullification. ...
The current showdown on the border between the Biden administration and the state of Texas seems to have caused much more heightened interest in the issue of secession than in nullification.
It should be just the opposite.
Texas is not engaging in a secessionist act by exercising its right to protect its border and its people. True enough, it is defying a U.S. Supreme Court order, but this order is not the law of the land. In fact, by defying the order to allow the feds to remove the razor wire at Eagle Pass, Texas is upholding the Constitution and putting into practice a principle known as nullification .
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