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nullification
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
in U.S. political sense of "a state's refusing to allow a federal law to be enforced," 1798, in Thomas Jefferson; from Late Latin nullificationem (nominative nullificatio ) "a making as nothing," from past participle stem of nullificare (see nullify ). ...
Wikipedia
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Nullification , in United States constitutional history, is a legal theory that a state has the right to nullify, or invalidate, any federal law which that state has deemed unconstitutional . The theory of nullification has never been legally upheld by ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of nullifying; a rendering void and of no effect, or of no legal effect. 2 removal
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nullification \Nul`li*fi*ca"tion\, n. [L. nullificatio contempt. See Nullify .] The act of nullifying; a rendering void and of no effect, or of no legal effect. Right of nullification (U. S. Hist.), the right claimed in behalf of a State to nullify or make ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the states'-rights doctrine that a state can refuse to recognize or to enforce a federal law passed by the United States Congress the act of nullifying; making null and void; counteracting or overriding the effect or force of something [syn: override ...
Usage examples of nullification.
In all the great questions which have agitated the country, and particularly in those fearful crises, the Missouri question, the nullification question, and the late slavery question, as connected with the newly acquired territory, involving and endangering the stability of the Union, his has been the leading and most conspicuous part.
His ultimate weakness in the nullification matter, his opposition to internal improvements, his policy of sacrificing the public lands to individual speculators, his warfare against the Bank of the United States conducted by methods the most unjustifiable, the transaction of the removal of the deposits so disreputable and injurious in all its details, the importation of Mrs.
Pinckney gently and beadily makes us realize that Satan is the emblem of the nullification of self-blame.
Hence State sovereignty, and hence his doctrine that in all cases that cannot come properly before the Supreme Court of the United States for decision, each State is free to decide for itself, on which he based the right of nullification, or the State veto of acts of Congress whose constitutionality the State denies.
He took the paper and nodded his thanks, assuming she had been told of the nullification precedent by Old Man Blair, whose hatred of Calhoun never abated.
He sat up, batted the sharp-voiced alarm clock at his bedside into nullification.
In the dreary fluxations of space travel he prepared renditions of the essay in all the remaining dialects of Earth, since the nullification could not be considered complete until every thinkable center of imaginative notions had been uncentered.
I have a dream That one day-down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
Though of course it was not regret, because in the wake of the injection would come nullification of corporeal poisons and oxidants and the arresting of the aging processin short, that which had evaded the best minds for three dozen centuries.
Though of course it was not regret, because in the wake of the injection would come nullification of corporeal poisons and oxidants and the arresting of the aging process—in short, that which had evaded the best minds for three dozen centuries.
For one thing, there was now no nullification of all the puns that grew in her wake.