Texas Seeks Nullification
By Douglas V. Gibbs
Author, Speaker, Instructor, Radio Host
Delegates representing the States wrote the U.S. Constitution to create a federal government to serve the States, and handle external issues such as war and trade with other countries; not to rule over the States and interfere with internal issues regarding the life, liberty and properties of the people, or to disrupt the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the State (Federalist 45 by James Madison).
As the authors of the U.S. Constitution, the States are the parents over the federal government, and the final arbiters of what is constitutional, or not constitutional. If a U.S. law is deemed unconstitutional by a State, as per Thomas Jefferson in his draft of the Kentucky Resolutions, 1798, the State may nullify that law.
“Where powers are assumed which have not been delegated, a nullification of the act is the rightful remedy.”
In Article VI., while there may be arguments by progressives claiming State nullification of federal law is unconstitutional because of the Supremacy Clause, the reality is that the clause DOES NOT SAY “all” federal laws take precedence over “all” State laws. It states that U.S. laws made “in pursuance” of the Constitution are the supreme law of the land, and State laws cannot be to the contrary of those U.S. laws made “in pursuance” of the U.S. Constitution.
Texas has decided enough is enough. They are ready to being nullifying unconstitutional federal laws, regardless of the Fed’s opinion to the contrary, and regardless of what the courts have to say about it.
The Republicans of the GOP majority Texas legislature have proposed the “Texas Sovereignty Act,” which calls for nullification of unconstitutional federal laws.
“If Texas has to live under California’s environmental regulations because the court says, ‘Oh no, Texas can’t be Texas, Texas has to be identical to California,’ this would make a legislative process to address that,” said Cecil Bell, the Republican author of the proposed act..
Bell says he wants to prohibit future overreach from the federal government.
Arizona already has approved a similar policy, and other States want to follow suit. Constitutionally, it is their right to do so.
In the Fox News article about the Texan desire to nullify, a constitutional law professor is quoted, and uses case law, not the original intent of the original language of the U.S. Constitution, to defend the liberal left’s position.
Sandy Levinson, a University of Texas professor specializing in constitutional law, said that while states have the right to refuse to cooperate with the federal government by reserving resources, the only way they can contest the constitutionality of a federal law is to sue. Texas sued the Obama administration nearly 50 times but has been less-litigious so far under Trump.
“What would be special is if the Texas Legislature really and truly believes that Texas can decide on their own, ‘this is unconstitutional we’re not going to do it,’” Levinson said. “That’s just bonkers.”
The argument by Levinson is based on the idea that the federal courts possess a power known as judicial review. The authority regarding judicial review is not enumerated as an express power anywhere in the Constitution’s original seven articles, nor in any amendment. The granting of that power, which is even admitted by the most ardent leftist supporters of the concept, is Chief Justice John Marshall’s opinion in the 1803 Marbury v. Madison case. In other words, the courts granted that authority to themselves, a tyrannical act of seizing a power that was not supported by the strict constructionists of the time period (like Jefferson and Madison), and should not be supported in today’s political discourse.
Nonetheless, the progressive left continues to claim that the opinions of unelected judges with no term limits are the definitions we must follow regarding the U.S. Constitution, rather than the original intent of the original language contained within the social contract* we know as the U.S. Constitution written and signed in 1787. The reality is, the States were the contract-makers, and it is the States who hold the authority to review federal law and determine if those laws are constitutional, or not; not the federal court system.
Think about it. The concept of judicial review holds that in our system of limited government, the federal courts are the definers of federal authority. In other words, through the courts, it is believed, the federal government may decide for itself what it’s own authorities are. How is that limited government? How is that a government that serves the States? How is that a government for the people, of the people, and by the people?
* Social Contract: While supporters of the case law approach to the U.S. Constitution claim that the document is a living a breathing document subject to “interpretation” by legal scholars, politicians, and judges, the reality is that such bending and twisting of the U.S. Constitution was never intended. Madison, using the same language used by English Scholar John Locke, called the U.S. Constitution a “social contract.” Because our written constitution is a “social contract,” that means it is not subject to case law, or “interpretation.” In “contract law,” when it comes to contracts, the law is clear: either an authority is listed in the contract, or it is not. The idea of “implied powers” or “implied law,” if the Constitution is indeed a “social contract,” are both unconstitutional, and potentially despotic.
– Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
Source: http://politicalpistachio.blogspot.com/2017/04/texas-seeks-nullification.html
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