I have a two part question. First in cases like the Alien Sedition Act and the Slavery Recovery Act did most states pass laws outlawing the enforcement of these acts or did State governors or agency just refuse to enforce the acts? Secondly what would be considered the correct Libertarian or Rothbardian way of nullifying the NDAA or Obama Care? Because a State passing a law not to enforce a Federal law kind of seems to me to increase government.
The Alien and Sedition Acts were three separate statutes. Although the idea of nullifying the Sedition Act was discussed in the abstract, nullification of that law was never actually implemented.
I have no idea how the Individual Mandate can be nullified. It is to be implemented by the IRS, and I don’t see how a state can prevent that from happening.
Before any attempt was made to enforce such a law, the federal district court for the district of Iowa would have issued an injunction banning such enforcement; then, any Iowa official who attempted to enforce it would be in contempt of federal court, and would suffer the consequences.
For more, google “Wallace school-house door” or “Ross Barnett Ol’ Miss.”
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