Mike Maharrey
tenthamendmentcenter.com
January 8. 2014
For some reason, some conservative commentators keep propagating the historical lie that James Madison “rejected nullification.” James Madison did no such thing.
Even while opposing a bastardized proposal for nullification created out of thin air in South Carolina, he still supported nullification as a “natural right.”
SOUTH CAROLINA
In Madison’s “notes on nullification” during the later days of his life, he explicity rejected a very specific doctrine of nullification proposed by South Carolina. But during the same time period, he refered to “nullification…as a natural right”
Madison’s arguments against this doctrine are hard to dispute. Here’s what he wrote:
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