Null and void.

• Position: STATELINE - Health care reform in Idaho - Brief article

Idaho is leading a charge to nullify the federal health reforms by citing the "Kentucky Resolutions," believed to be written by Thomas Jefferson in 1798. Jefferson was protesting the Alien and Sedition Acts passed by Congress when he wrote "whensoever the general government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force." Lawmakers in Idaho and six other states are contending this doctrine gives states, not the U.S. Supreme Court, the authority to be the final arbiters over controversial federal laws. South Carolina used this argument in the early 1800s against federal tariffs that Southerners felt were discriminatory against slave states. Wisconsin, several years later, tried to nullify the federal Fugitive Slave Act...