“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
Written by the great American poet, Walt Whitman, TO THE STATES urged people, cities and states to RESIST. We call that nullification – something northern abolitionists did to great success in the 1850s. FULL POEM: To The States, or any one of them, or any city...