Week 4

What is meant by “state interposition and nullification”? What do you think of these doctrines? Historically, they were used to oppose the obviously-unconstitutional Alien & Sedition Acts but also, decades later, to oppose racial desegration in the Jim Crow south. Suppose that the federal government enacts a new law that is clearly unconstitutional do the states have the power to stand against it? Should they?

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