A Nullification History Lesson for Jesse Jackson

The Tenth Amendment Center, October 18, 2013

Saul Alinsky, the king of community organizers, once wrote in his book Rules for Radicals that one should “pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.”

There’s little in American politics that is more polarizing than race, and there’s few better at this kind of fear-mongering than Jesse Jackson.

In his recent columns, Jesse has aggressively pushed the race-card, hoping to convince the fearful that attempts to block Obamacare funding in Congress are somehow born of the same mentality held by those who wanted to preserve the institution of slavery in the 19th century.

Seriously.  You can’t make this stuff up.

AN AMATEUR

Jesse might be a professional polarizer, but he’s an amateur historian, at best.  That’s really an understatement.  Seriously, the guy’s a joke when it comes to facts.

In pontificating about Obamacare, race, and slavery, Jesse tried to give a history lesson, and failed.  Miserably.

Where he really went off the rails was when he attempted to show his “expertise” on nullification.

Here’s a bit of what he had to say:

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Tenth Amendment Center: Nullify Now Event, October 19, 2013 in Raleigh

I'm writing to please ask your help in spreading the Te at 9:00 am at the Raleigh Convention Center, 500 S. Salisbury Street, in downtown Raleigh. 

The purpose of the event is to help educate the people of North Carolina on the truth and the history behind the doctrine of Nullification in order to foster a lively debate in our state as to the options we have to push back against the oppressive policies of the federal government. 

We have some exciting and wonderful speakers who will be addressing some of the important topics surrounding Nullification, including nationally and critically acclaimed conservative talk radio show host and movie producer Mike Church, the ever-brilliant and entertaining conservative lawyer Publius Huldah, the head of the Tenth Amendment Center Michael Boldin, producer and president of the Foundation for a Free Society (F4FS) Jason Rink, and North Carolina's very own constitutional expert and advocate, Dr. Greg Brannon.

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Commerce Power: “To Regulate,” not “Prohibit”

The Tenth Amendment Center

In a law review article  titled “To Regulate, Not Prohibit: Limiting the Commerce Power,” New York University Law Professor Barry Friedman, and 2011 New York University Law graduate, Genevieve Lakier take on the daunting task of reasserting the historic and genealogical lineage of the Commerce Clause from its inception through the country’s 237 years of existence as a federal republic.

This thorough and thoughtful 67 page treatise is broken down into three distinct eras. In the first section, the authors cite numerous uses and misuses of commerce power, including a legal concept allowing the federal government to prohibit commerce of certain goods or fungible items.

The Commerce Clause is found at: Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3 of the Constitution, and declares: the congress shall have power “to regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes.”

Lawyers and laity alike generally assume the Congress’s power “to regulate” commerce, includes the authority to prohibit it. Professor Friedman points out that historically, this is not how the Commerce Clause has always been understood and practiced.

“At the Founding, and roughly 115 years thereafter, the dominant view was that Congress did not possess the authority to ban goods merely because they crossed state lines.”

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