Letter to the Editor: Check The Facts Patrick

After reading Patrick Weadon’s column in your January 13 Severna Park Voice, it appears his article contains at least two significant errors.
First, the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution appears in Article VI; there is no such language in Article V. Second, Mr. Weadon argues that Jefferson was one of the men of that time who “…jettisoned the Articles of Confederation in favor of a new document, the Constitution,” and, by implication, supported an interpretation of the Supremacy Clause giving “the federal government the final word on Constitutional issues.”
To begin with Jefferson was not even present at the writing of the Constitution (serving at the time as our Minister to France). Next, Jefferson subsequently challenged the federal government’s “final word” authority as the author of the Kentucky Resolutions, which asserted in 1798 that the states, in certain circumstances, could disagree with federal authority and declare certain laws “un-authoritative, voice and of no force.”
It seems Mr. Weadon knows neither his Constitution nor his history.
Edwin R. Soeffing
Severna Park, MD