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Nullification and Secession in Modern Constitutional Thought /
The Missouri legislature passes a bill to flout federal gun-control laws it deems unconstitutional. Texas refuses to recognize same-sex marriages, citing the state's sovereignty. The Tenth Amendment Center promotes the "Federal Health Care Nullification Act." In these and many other s...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Lawrence, Kansas :
University Press of Kansas,
[2016]
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | The Missouri legislature passes a bill to flout federal gun-control laws it deems unconstitutional. Texas refuses to recognize same-sex marriages, citing the state's sovereignty. The Tenth Amendment Center promotes the "Federal Health Care Nullification Act." In these and many other similar instances, the spirit of nullification is seeing a resurgence in an ever-more politically fragmented and decentralized America. What this means - in legal, cultural, and historical terms - is the question explored in Nullification and Secession in Modern Constitutional Thought. Bringing together a number of distinguished scholars, the book offers a variety of informed perspectives on what editor Sanford Levinson terms "neo-nullification," a category that extends from formal declarations on the invalidity of federal law to what might be called "uncooperative federalism." (Publisher). |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (400 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9780700622986 |