Definitionn. the states'-rights doctrine that a state can refuse to recognize or to enforce a federal law passed by the United States Congress
Last update: July 28, 2015
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The nullification of that law was important. [Please select]
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See also STATE RIGHTS, NULLIFICATION, and CONFEDERATE STATES. [Please select]
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This doctrine of nullification, as we shall see, was later of serious importance. [Please select]
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But as South Carolina repealed the Ordinance of Nullification there was never any need to use force. [Please select]
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The question of nullification was debated in the Senate by Webster and Hayne. [Please select]
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In the nullification controversy of South Carolina there was a war of giants. [Please select]
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His speeches were already in the schoolbooks, and for twenty years boys had been declaiming his arguments against nullification. [Please select]
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We shall see that with the nullification of the law the common people began to take the law into their own hands. [Please select]
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Jackson's action at the time of the nullification episode may well be compared with Buchanan's inaction in 1860-61. [Please select]
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The South Carolinians, on their part, suspended the nullification ordinance and thus avoided an armed conflict with "Old Hickory," as his admirers called Jackson. [Please select]
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In considering the question of secession it will be well to review the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, the Hartford Convention, and the Nullification episode. [Please select]
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