Even though most people seem to believe it – and the government definitely acts as if it were true, federal law is not “always supreme” – all the time. Arguing in support of that requires ignoring the words of the supremacy clause – and the history of the American Revolution, which was a rejection of this kind of unlimited, centralized power.
Path to Liberty: March 20, 2023
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James Otis – Speech Against the Writs of Assistance (1761)
Episode – The Real Revolution: James Otis vs the Writs of Assistance
Patrick Henry – Virginia Resolves (1765)
Episode – The Peoples’ Nullification of the Stamp Act
Mark Boonshoft – New York Public Library
Declaratory Act (18 Mar 1766)
John Hancock – Massacre Day Oration (1774)
Thomas Paine – the Crisis (1776)
William Davie – North Carolina Ratifying Convention (29 July 1788)
James Madison – Federalist 45
St. George Tucker – View of the Constitution of the United States
Thomas Jefferson, Kentucky Resolutions (10 Nov 1798)
Centinel No. V (4 Dec 1787)
Alexander Hamilton – Federalist 33
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