a that's nullification is a. if we're going to be accurate of the analogy with the gary's car, let's assume gary has gone on vacation for three weeks to the bahamas. ' or he has been in a coma the last 150 years. the day gary goes on vacation, i steal his car. now he doesn't know his car is stolen. he is living it up in the bahamas. but for three solid weeks i drive around in gary's car. everybody that sees me drive gary's car assume i have the legal authority to do so. why? because nobody is objecting. gary comes home from vacation, realized i've stolen his car, and he steps up and says, you stole my car. i am taking my car back because i have the rightful legal authority to do so. just because the federal government has been exercising stolen power within your state for the last 100 years, does not change that stolen authority into a legal authority. it is still stolen. it is still unlawful. now, there are people, my federal supremacist friends, who assert that nullification is not a rightful remedy, and what t

that is what nullification is. now, if we are going to be a little bit more apt about our analogy with the car, let's just assume now that gary has gone on vacation for three weeks to the bahamas. what he's been in a coma for the last 150 years. the day gary goes on vacation, i steal his car. he doesn't know his car is stolen. stolen. he's living it up in the bahamas. but for three solid weeks, i drive around in his car. everybody that's easy drive his car assumes i have the legal authority to do so because nobody is objecting. kerry comes home from vacation and realizes that stolen his car. he steps up and says you stole my car. i am taking my car back because i have the rightful legal authority to do so. just because the government has been exercisin exercising civilr within your state for the last 100 years does not change that stolen authority into a legal authority. it is still stolen and unlawful. now there are people who assert the nullification is not a rightful remedy. and what they are saying is the nulli

of the sovereignties was the nullification. was the right devastates to exercise the reserve power and with government officials in the nullification is not a state refusing to comply with all federal government it is the same to say you stole my car and i will not let you drive it anymore per car taking the keys back in the simply will not comply with stolen authority. so now to be little more accurate with the analogy militias say he went on vacation for three weeks to the bahamas or he has been in the, the last 160 years. he doesn't know his car stolen he is living up and but for three solid weeks i drive around in his car. to assume i have the legal authority to do so. in realizes i of stolen his car and said he stole my car and i have that rifle legal authority to do so. just because the federal government has been exercising stolen power within the last 100 years to put that into a legal authority. it is still of lawful. there are people my federal supremacist friends that is made -- not a rightful remedy that nullificati

these movements, nullification cession is turbulent. in these times our greatest strengths are our rule of law, our constitutionalist institutions and that loyalty of americans to their priceless legacy of freedom and justice and the union that preserves them. every person who takes the oath of office under our constitution swears an oath to support and defend the constitution. these modern resurrections of the long buried doctrines of nullification and secession strike at the heart of the constitution. this would undermine the very foundation of our american civilization. they ought to be condemned in the strongest possible terms and opposed by every american of good will who remains loyal o our free government. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the chair recognizes the gentleman from connecticut, mr. ourtney, for five minutes. mr. courtney: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, as we're sitting here in this chamber, 30 miles from the groton navy subbase there is a russian spy ship that is loitering as wa

the nullification is not a state refusing to comply with all federal government. notification is a state saying you stole my car and i'm not letting you drive it anymore. i am taking the keys back and they simply will not comply but stolen authority. that is the altercation is. if we are more accurate about our analogy, let's just assume now that kerry has gone on vacation for three weeks to the bahamas. or he's been in a coma for the last 150 years. the day gary goes on vacation, i steal his car. .. in an in the change that to a legal authority. it is still stolen. it is still unlawful. there are people, my federal supremacy as friends who assert that nullification is not a rightful remedy. what they will say is nullification is not the rightful remedy because the supreme court is the ruler of the constitution. i was in a federal courtroom the other day in kansas where the federal judge announced that it is the job of the supreme court he and the circuit courts to announce the constitution. i'm sorry, we announced that in 1789. is this a proper interpretation of

debates, etc., 30%aring this compared to ,oting slavery -- tariffs nullification debates, etc. the causes of the war are deeply intertwined, yet, translating a toe nuanced interpretation the general populace proves challenging for many reasons, and i would daresay say part of that is because of what the landscape looks like in many of these places. if you are in the north and see or sherman orrant whoever it is, there's this , "we won sort of we're done," and they don't pay m.eir attention to the in the south, it's a little bit different. when you factor in the reality that most civil war sites and battlefields are principally in the south, how do you think rememberedd often be ? quite frankly, among the most prominent -- i say "among the " -- among the most prominent, of course, are the battlefields, and those are run by the national park service. for decades, the park service, as brilliant as they are, as themic as they are, avoided controversy of cause of war focusing solely on actions, what happened on the battlefield. they focused on military actions, on leaders with great

some prominent elected officials are begin asserting the doctrine of nullification by declaring that their jurisdictions are sanctuaries where federal immigration laws will simply be ignored. and in california, the formal succession movement is supported by nearly a third of the population of my own suffering state. i've held more than a hundred town hall meetings in my district throughout the last eight years, spanned the entire life of the tea party and the occupy wall street movements. through all of these heated debates, the police have never had to intervene until this weekend in roseville when the roseville police department determined that the size and temper of the crowd required a police escort to protect me as i left the venue. now, the vast majority of the people attempting to attend this meeting were peaceful, decent, law-abiding folks who sincerely opposed donald trump and they wanted to make their views known to their elected representative. but there was also a well-organized element that came to disrupt and disrupt they did. in the last four elections, our country has

the nullification crisis was all about south carolina. i forget where it is but lincoln makes a passing reference that --th carolina is a hybrid hotbed of e-signature cities -- hotbed of the centricity's. -- you would have to be insensible not to notice that. newspapermanant describes the events of that day, lincoln arise at the train station. ,e is so overcome with emotion he can barely speak to the people who are crowded into this station. he told the president i will give no speech. he does not intend to speak. there are 1000 people, so he speaks. speaks whenlly only he is really carefully prepared his addresses. i'd used to ask how many people think he wrote the gettysburg address on the back of an envelope, and the answer was always more than 50% so i stopped asking the question. [laughter] but i think he said this spontaneously. what is also remarkable is how much religious language is in the speech. thought that he offers at this particular moment in time. he is already determined. seward told him to give up his train ride. you hav

vice president, was an ardent slavery supporter who advocated state nullification of national laws, a philosophy which led to southern secession and the civil war. yale will rename calhoun college after another alum: pioneering computer scientist grace murray hopper, who posthumously won the presidential medal of freedom last year. that's all for this edition of pbs newshour weekend. i'm hari sreenivasan. good night. captioning sponsored by wnet captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >> pbs newshour weekend is made possible by: bernard and irene schwartz. judy and josh weston. the cheryl and philip milstein family. the john and helen glessner family trust-- supporting trustworthy journalism that informs and inspires. sue and edgar wachenheim, iii. barbara hope zuckerberg. corporate funding is provided by mutual of america-- designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. additional support has been provided by: and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers

the nullification crisis was all about south carolina, and i forget where it is, but lincoln makes a passing reference of the peoria speech of the ek sen are tri dk eccentricitieeccentricit that south carolina is no longer an outlier, but a leader, and this is a whole thing. so you are have to be incensable not to notice that. >> and rememberb that henry ballard the one who springfield dispatch describes the events that day, that lincoln arrives at the train station that day and he is so overcome with emotion that he can barely speak to the people crowded into the tiny station. he has told the press in advance, i will give no speech. he does not intend to speak, but here sh here, there are 1,000 people there that day and so he speaks. lincoln usually only speaks when he is really, really carefully prepare prepared the addresses. and i used to ask that question how many people wrote the gettysburg address on the back of the flap of an envelope and the answer was 50%, so i stopped asking the question. he was a writer and editor and more than spontaneously, it is remarkable how much rel

to the polls, they look at things like sanctuary cities, they think this is the left practicing nullification. they look at court decisions out of warn and the recent refusal to stay, and that was their view of judicious imperialism. people forget what this temporary travel ban is about improving our vetting. and they are trying to turn it into a discrimination issue which it is not. charles: could it play a role in the final outcome? i read stories where christians were turned away and sent back to wherever they came from. bust media narrative is this is a muslim ban. could this be the deciding factor? >> we'll see. it depends on what the supreme court decides to evaluate this. i hope it will be on constitutional grounds and it should be. what is really going on here is people seizing on whatever pretext presents itself to attack donald trump. these are people determined to destroy this presidency by hook or by crook. they seized upon this and they are spinning it, i believe mischaracterizing it, they are getting federal judges to validate their efforts. but at the end of the day it's abou s

the one part of jackson that he appropriates and relies upon is jackson's a preparation against nullification.

john c calhoun's doctrine of nullification.n a state or city can simply refuse to obey federal law. the similarities between the democratic reaction to the election of 2016 and to the election of 1860 are starting to become pretty eerie. the riots in the streets. reful to accept the legitimacy of the election. secession movement burj i don't- burgeoning in california and reaser is of calhoun's doctrine. melissa: let me ask you, they want to use fund for people being victimized. they want to use taxpayer fund to defend themselves against the federal government which is amazing. executive order that seeks to withhold federal funds from sanctuary cities is unconstitutional. how do you battle back against that? >> they have a right to challenge any federal order through the court system. they do not have any right under our constitution to defy that constitution. melissa: yeah. all right, congressman, thank you so much for coming on. i appreciate your time. i wish we had more. too much breaking news. >> my pleasures. thanks for hav

obviously favored a small government and more power for the states and so forth, even flirted with nullification, which seems to be kind of a variant of what's going on now with the shutdown of the national government. and hamilton favored obviously a much stronger government, so the power of government is essential for liberty hamilton says in the first federalist. so that's about as close as i can come to putting them in a contemporary context. >> is there a contemporary point where jefferson and hamilton realized they're putting us on the path towards political parties and factions which hamilton warned us of in number 10? prof. ferling: well, jefferson in the wake of the passage of the bank bill, of washington's signing of the bank bill, jefferson and madison go in the tour up to new york. jefferson's intention was not to found a political party, but just to take people who had reservations about the constitution, and even more so, people in congress who had some reservations about hamilton's economic program that had unfolded to that point, and to bring about a concerted opposition, not to