Should a state be allowed to veto federal laws ?

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The Constitution is a contract between sovereign states, but each state must follow the contract. If Congress passes a tax on imports, that's in the contract.

Now, if the federal government ever passed unconstitutional legislation, each state certainly has the right to nullify it.

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I suppose, but then you might as well not have any federal laws in the first place. :-)

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No. By the very nature of things, any federal law that's not based in the constitution is null and of no affect. A nullification act is just an officail acknowledgement of it.

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There are a thousand different ways to interpret treaties. Make every department of government answerable first and foremost to the Constitution.

When any two departments of government can no longer get along, the proper fix is to call for a Constitutional Amendment.

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Give me an example of an issue that the states wouldn't be able to agree on.

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No, I mean something that's based on some kind of constitutional thought.

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None whatsoever. Just disagreement over whether or not judges are allowed to make stuff up.

There should never be two coexisting views of the Constitution. One has to win out over the other, either by war or constitutional amendment.

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There is no constitutional right to privacy. If there was, it would be a good idea to repeal it, because it's extremely subjective.

The best way to solve the abortion issue is in state legislatures.

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"Resolved, That the General Assembly of Virginia, doth unequivocally express a firm resolution to maintain and defend the Constitution of the United States, and the Constitution of this State, against every aggression either foreign or domestic ... That this Assembly doth explicitly and peremptorily declare, that it views the powers of the federal government, as resulting from the compact, to which the states are parties; as limited by the plain sense and intention of the instrument constituting the compact; as no further valid than they are authorized by the grants enumerated in that compact; and that in case of deliberate, palpable, and dangerous exercise of other powers, not granted by the said compact, the states who are parties thereto, have the right, and are in duty bound, to interpose for arresting the progress of the evil, and for maintaining within their respective limits, the authorities, rights and liberties appertaining to them."
    -James Madison

Did the chief author of the Constitution betray his own document?

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The seat belt, traffic funding nonsense must have been back when the Democrats controlled Congress.

Nullification goes back to the Alien and Sedition Acts. Will anyone condemn that?