Sanctuary States and the Echoes of 1850 – A New Nullification Crisis
By Thomas Cole
The United States is quietly re-enacting one of the central constitutional crises that led to the Civil War: the deliberate nullification of federal law by state officials for partisan political advantage.
In the 1850s, Democrat-controlled Southern states brazenly refused to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act and other federal laws they disliked. State judge…
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