Early in American history, Founding Father James Madison warned that the fastest way to “put an end to the Union itself” was through nullification because it would “render each obligation a state’s citizen owe to the union as a whole optional.” That lesson, and the Civil War, is something a Texas Republican legislator, Dan Flynn, is attempting to repeat through a proposal that empowers just two Texas Republicans, the state house speaker and lieutenant governor, with authority to suspend any federal law within Texas’s border.
Posted on: Mon, 01 Dec 2014 08:36:27 +0000
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