Nullification

Nullification is just a name for lawlessness that someone happens to agree with -- hardly an aspiration for a legal system, in my opinion.

Is That Legal?: Crime and Criminal Law Archives 2006

While Jury Nullification is a good thing, the reason it is opposed so judicially now is that in the 60s, it was nearly impossible to convict a white man in the south of murdering a black man.

Bête Voir 2006

Nullification is a pretty pejorative term, and while I don’t think much of the merits of these lawsuits, I don’t think it rises to the level of nullification until a federal court upholds the health-care law and a State decides to disregard it anyway.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Standing and Ripeness in State Lawsuits: 2010

Nullification is a pretty pejorative term, and while I don’t think much of the merits of these lawsuits, I don’t think it rises to the level of nullification until a federal court upholds the health-care law and a State decides to disregard it anyway.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Standing and Ripeness in State Lawsuits: 2010

Abbeville Institute, entitled Nullification, Secession, and the Human Scale of Political Order, and it has been an amazing learning experience.

LewRockwell.com 2010

"Nullification" was the name which this referendum soon acquired.

Expansion and Conflict William E. Dodd

For many years subsequently, slaves -- as domestic servants -- were taken to the Territories without exciting remark, and the "Nullification" movement in South Carolina was entirely directed against the tariff.

Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War Richard Taylor

"Nullification": and technically this may be true.

A History of the United States Cecil Chesterton 1898

This was the celebrated doctrine of "Nullification," and in pursuance of it

A History of the United States Cecil Chesterton 1898

"Nullification" foreshadowed in Kentucky Resolutions, 63-64; proclaimed by South Carolina, 99; defended by Calhoun, 99; repudiated by Jackson, 100; applied to Force Bill, 101; not discredited in South, 102

A History of the United States Cecil Chesterton 1898