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Nullification   /nˌələfəkˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Nullification

noun
1.
The states'-rights doctrine that a state can refuse to recognize or to enforce a federal law passed by the United States Congress.
2.
The act of nullifying; making null and void; counteracting or overriding the effect or force of something.  Synonym: override.






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"Nullification" Quotes from Famous Books



... despair, demanded the nullification of his marriage; and as the courts did not proceed fast enough for his impatience, he killed his companion, Benedicte, with a pistol-shot, at the moment when she was biting and tearing ...
— The Memoirs of Madame de Montespan, Complete • Madame La Marquise De Montespan

... on his reputation, without an upright enemy, the old man attended to his duty absolutely, loved argument, encouraged all young lawyers at the bar, and he lived down to the time of nullification, and when General Jackson issued his proclamation against the nullifiers John Marshall and Judge Story went up to the White House and took a glass of wine ...
— Brave Men and Women - Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs • O.E. Fuller

... the protocol is plain. It is simply that the nullification of this article was not intended to destroy valid, legitimate titles to land which existed and were in full force independently of the provisions and without the aid of this article. Notwithstanding it has been expunged from the treaty, these grants ...
— A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents: Polk - Section 3 (of 3) of Volume 4: James Knox Polk • Compiled by James D. Richardson

... those who espouse the doctrines of nullification reject, as it seems to me, the first great principle of all republican liberty; that is, that the majority must govern. In matters of common concern, the judgment of a majority must stand as the ...
— Public Speaking • Clarence Stratton

... — N. compensation, equation; commutation; indemnification; compromise &c. 774 neutralization, nullification; counteraction &c. 179; reaction; measure for measure. retaliation &c. 718 equalization &c. 27; robbing Peter to pay Paul. set-off, offset; make-weight, casting-weight; counterpoise, ballast; indemnity, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus

... point of antiquity, are traced to a time not long anterior to the nullification of South Carolina in 1832, which was so promptly suppressed by General Jackson, then President of the United States. Some of them, however, claim even greater antiquity, and point with affected pride to the historical period of the American colonial revolution against ...
— The Great North-Western Conspiracy In All Its Startling Details • I. Windslow Ayer

... were enemies of Cato, as being reproved by his conduct: and as Pompeius viewed Cato's reputation even as a nullification of his own power, he was continually setting persons on to abuse him, among whom Clodius also was one, the demagogue, who had again insensibly attached himself to Pompeius, and was crying out against Cato on ...
— Plutarch's Lives Volume III. • Plutarch



Words linked to "Nullification" :   counteraction, change of state, nullify, neutralization, cancellation, states' rights, override, neutralisation, vitiation



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