2017: The Year Nullification Goes Mainstream?

scday3b_11151367By Joshua Nuckols

It’s hard to imagine a future with Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump at the helm as an era of liberty. But this election could end up being the best thing for freedom in a long time.

In fact, I believe 2017 will be the year nullification goes mainstream.

There will be no reason for any freedom loving citizen to sit back and say, “just work within the system.” The system has given three bad options for president. And liberty loses with each one. As a result, localism will be in vogue – not necessarily out of preference, but necessity. Constitutional law and government has its back against the wall.

Trump has shown no respect for the Constitution or its limits on his power. Hillary acts like she is above the law, and in fact, is treated as if she is above the law. With changes coming to the Supreme Court, the future of the Second Amendment, religious liberty, and abortion laws, will be significantly affected, and will establish the future of constitutional law for generations.

The next four years will define the nullification debate. The states must bear the blows and provide the security and armor against freedom’s foes. If not, no one will.

A project asserting robust states’ rights needs to be the next step. Civil Liberties advocates, and freedom fighters need to stop thinking of themselves as the outsiders. Be OK with being popular. The so-called fringe needs to embrace this chance to take center stage. This means opening up to conservatives, pro-lifers, Cruz supporters, National Review Republicans, Bernie supporters and any other refugees of the political process.

The same people who decried state-level resistance as destructive of the rule of law, will be clamoring to get in the ark. Open the door and let them in.

If you don’t take them – who will? Hold no grudge.

Since nullification is primarily a legal doctrine, policy differences don’t matter. You can duke it out on the floor of your state legislature.

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Joshua Nuckols is a 3L at the University of St. Thomas School of Law, and am currently interning at the Rutherford Institute. When not studying law, exploring Northern Minnesota, or reading Beowulf, I do what I can to fight tyranny and live a free life. He writes for the Tenth Amendment Center, where this article first appeared.

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4 Comments on "2017: The Year Nullification Goes Mainstream?"

  1. I would like to ask Joshua nuckols who wrote this story does he honestly think that either trump or Clinton are not under the control of the banking establishment who own the federal reserve bank . it is the banking establishment he should be writing about not the people who represent them . there is no democracy in America because the bankers control all the polititions and all politics so how does his story matter .

    • Americans Stand Tall. Neither Trump/Clinton should live the King/Queen together both power that they want is not to do is rule. America grow up we r the people our country will fall and fail. You will we allow our Constitution to be Slaughtered America likes to be disgraced by power to cause all US Citizens safety and Freedom. It will be a crumbled way of life. Is there no fight in us. Where is Abe Lincoln say bye. We can do much better. Freedom ring loud. Love this nation! We really need to search our hearts use common armed. Be A Fighter USA Stand we have the right to put in honorable honest hard working and cares. Tough enough to keep us a Great Nation. Standing Tall for all. Be good be safe. America Love is within Stay Great. Please America We r not alone we r a Grand people. Thank all because nothing to stop this great and strong nation. It will be free. No to Trump/Clinton. We can make us stronger. We have the real strength as a whole freedom to make good our choice as well as heart. Believe in what we can do. Stand Tall to all.

  2. Free the heads, jail the feds. Nullify, nullify.

  3. The Founders gave us 3 boxes to deal with the inevitable tyranny of government; The Jury Box, The Ballot Box, and The Ammo Box.

    The Jury Box was lost a long time ago when the corrupt Judicial Branch began pointedly forbidding the open discussion of Jury Nullification in Court, whereby The People judge not only the alleged facts of a case, but also the law and application of it, as explained very directly by John Jay in one of the first cases before the young Supreme Court. Judges have gone as far as jailing those who would dare to educate Jurors of their actual rights and responsibilities.

    The Ballot Box is on its last feeble legs. Through a combination of systematic programming by the centers of Education and Entertainment, the average American has been brainwashed into rabidly following a corrupt two-party system that has been engineered to deconstruct America from the inside out regardless of which “party” is in power. Even basic Civics are no longer taught in public schools as it used to be, leading the masses to accept and vote for candidates to office that are patently ineligible to hold office, for reasons of questionable ethics, residency requirements and even outright felony criminal behaviour. The common perception is that the coming elections in November will either be the Ballot Box’s return, or its final dying gasp, which leaves us with only one alternative;

    The Ammo Box. Any who call “pish-tosh” the idea of a Second American Revolution against tyranny would do well to read historic documents from the first one. A great many at the time held the same incorrect assumptions, such as “Only a small fringe element of rabble rousers are for a Revolution”, and “Surely the common peasantry doesn’t stand a chance against a proper Military and Naval force”.

    We have been at these crossroads before. Let us all pray that a return to the United States Constitution and a return to the acknowledgement of YHWH as our God and protection, putting away the abominable practices of Infant Sacrifice and Sodomy is the direction we choose.

    Regardless, in the end analysis, the American spirit will prevail. The only question to be answered is “how much blood will be spilled”.

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