Thread: Sanctuary city States rights issue.

"I live in Montana and we have a law which prohibits the registration of firearms manufactured, sold and used within the state. This isn't a "nullification". It's a reinforcement of a basic Constitutional right which no unit of government has the right to infringe." Unless you can show that firearm registration interferes with your right to have firearms, this is just rhetoric. "We stand...

"...shall not be infringed." Registration, if used as a requirement to "keep" or own, is an infringement. All the courts have to do is change the meaning of infringe to allow. They basically did that in the filburn case when they changed the word interstate to intrastate so that the federal government could regulate behavior that was not interstate nor commerse. For the left there are no restrictions on...

Hello Happy Geezer, I live in Montana and we have a law which prohibits the registration of firearms manufactured, sold and used within the state. This isn't a "nullification". It's a reinforcement of an inalienable Constitutional right which no unit of government can infringe. We stand with the Constitution even if others do not. We're not seceding from the Great Republic. Those who seek to impose their...

Article VI of the Constitution provides as follows: "This Constitution and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding." That...

Creaney -- good discussion. I think "sanctuary" movement are pretty old and they are forms of nullification as Happy Geezer said and civil disobedience. The rationale that states don't have to enforce immigration laws is a good pretext. I don't think any state has an immigration office as does the USG. Sancturaries are humanitarian in nature. No human being is "illegal." Borders are artificial....

Joseph M. Creaney: I for one am getting sick of states rights. Do we live in a united states or do we not?

Robert Merrill: <<The troubles of Mexico's economy are largely traceable to NAFTA.>> Mexcio has been in a financial crisis for about a 100 years or so, this is mainly due to the corruption in all levels of government there. The 1994 Economic Crisis in Mexico, widely known as the Mexican peso crisis, became an effective crisis with the sudden devaluation of the Mexican peso in December 1994. From wikipedia:...

"...shall not be infringed." Registration, if used as a requirement to "keep" or own, is an infringement.

It sounds as though the sanctuary cities are promoting nullification. I thought collectivists were against things like nullification. Are they changing their minds or are they saying only they are allowed to nullify?