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Nullification

noun

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. Synonym: override.

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"Nullification" Quotes from Famous Books

... prohibition of Slavery as a condition to the admission of Missouri into the Union as a new State, the opposition raged furiously, even to the extent of menacing the existence of the Union; and this, too, was done in the name of State Rights. Ten years later, the pretension took the familiar form of Nullification, insisting that our government was only a compact of States, any one of which was free to annul an act of Congress at its own pleasure; and all this in the name of State Rights. For a succession of years afterwards, at the presentation of petitions against Slavery,—petitions ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 12, No. 72, October, 1863 • Various

... by the discovery that humans knew of their presence on Sirene IV. They'd been made aghast by the brisk and competent nullification of their eighty-gee rocket defenses. They'd been appalled by the appearance of a space fleet which—if it had been a space fleet—could have blasted the planet to a cinder. And then they were bewildered that the humans asked no submission—not ...

— A Matter of Importance • William Fitzgerald Jenkins

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