Originally Posted by
Foundation_Of_Liberty
It violates them better too. History shows that.
The beauty of this system, I am proposing, is that if a state has a bad law, it is much easier for the people to change it (because they are closer to that level of government) than a bad federal law, and it is also possible to vote with your feet and to move to a different state with better laws, thus naturally shrinking unjust states, and growing just ones.
Both of these advantages are lost if the bad laws are Federal and forced upon the whole country.
Moreover, the amendment says: "The right of individual States, as the representatives of the people, to nullify unconstitutional or unjust Federal Law within their borders shall not be abridged." Notice a law can be nullified only if it is unjust. Who would you want to be the judge of what is just: Federal government or the people who live locally? I'd say justice is justice anywhere. It is science like mathematics. Whoever has it should be able to prove it, and has a right to enforce it.
This amendment simply says the obvious, that injustice can be stopped at any level it is found at, and the people have the right to nullify the injustice of both Federal and State governments. It is a perfectly sound principle of justice.
I say it again: ANYONE at any level has a right to nullify injustice or an unjust law, because an unjust law is null and void by definition. In the language of the amendment: "unjust law is no law at all." So, all this amendment does is restates this obvious truth, so that corrupt judges cannot hide it anymore.
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