Seems to be confusion about nullification and secession.? The former which Jefferson and Madison, the latter essentially wrote the Constitution, believed to be inherent in that document is the right of a state to refuse to enforce a Federal law that it believes exceeds the authority given to the Federal government under the Constitution.? Doesn't have anything to do with secession per se which entails the right of a state to end the contract of federation and leave the United States.

The jury is still out on the constitutionality of nullification, although in Ableman v. Booth, 62 US 506(1859) the Supreme Court did hold that a state cannot issue rulings that contradict the decisions of Federal courts.? 




 








 


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