Sentence examples for area of nullification from inspiring English sources

Obama went "beyond prioritization or discretion into the area of nullification," said Ira Mehlman, spokesman for the Federation for American Immigration Reform, which favors increased deportation.

There have been unfortunate instances of nullification.

If he disapproved of nullification, then he would do what it took to defeat it.

But Jackson and Calhoun fought, primarily over the doctrine of nullification.

The doctrine of nullification had been advocated by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of 1798 99.

The legislature called for a special state convention, and on November 24 , 1832 the convention adopted the Ordinance of Nullification.

Sen. John C. Calhoun, the architect of nullification, was the major spokesman for the South until his death in 1850.

Jackson accepted the challenge, denounced the theory of nullification, and asked Congress for authority to send troops into South Carolina to enforce the law.

The South Carolina convention responded on March 15 by rescinding the Ordinance of Nullification but three days later maintained its principles by nullifying the Force Bill.

Generally a supporter of slavery and the rights of southern states, he nonetheless fought one of his defining battles on the issue of "nullification".

Not that I turned down booze or other drugs; it was just that none of them hit the same sweet spot of nullification.