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Originally Posted by danielpalos
What is your opinion of a possible effect on US foreign policy; that of potentially, decreasing the possibility of the federal government's enthusiasm for foreign entanglements? With a hypothetical nullification amendment, the several states could have refused to allow their state militias (state national guard units) to enter federal service. If enough states had nullified the federal governments request, there might not have been sufficient support for any invasion and occupation efforts by the federal government.
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I understand that recent adventures of the federal government force many to bias in direction of the radical isolationism. Your considerations stroke to the naturally simplest way to solve the problem - merely to cut the necessary potential for Washigton (because you probably want to mathematically neglect the factor of oligarchy, which is the core of impossibility of your model). But you shouldn't think the nullification will stop on that. Once balance is hurt, the process will go on untill there will be 50 small exact copies of the today USA instead of one solid body. With the nullification option you can scale the USA but you can not change their nature. You will set the framework of foreign policy for each souvereign state in regard to one another. With the run of the time they will merge into the few geopolitical clusters and plunge into the rivalry.