Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

January 31, 2011

Writing in the Idaho Statesman, Professor David Gray Adler of the University of Idaho rebuked the state legislature for discussing the possibility of nullifying the patently unconstitutional Obamacare measure.

Adler describes nullification as ?a pillar of Southern resistance to the federal government,? intimating that it was a shield for racial bigotry. In fact, nullification was first embraced by abolitionists who refused to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act.

Adler admits that Thomas Jefferson endorsed nullification in 1798, but dismisses this because Jefferson ?was not a Framer of the Constitution.? Adler studiously omits mention of the fact that James Madison, the Constitution?s chief architect, co-wrote a nullification resolution with Jefferson.

Adler?s most remarkable assertion is that the states that wrested their independence from Great Britain and sent delegates to Philadelphia in 1787 are somehow ?creatures of the Constitution? they created.

Professor Gray claims to be an internationally recognized expert on the Constitution. On the available evidence he knows little about the document respects it even less.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.