Sentence examples for nullification that from inspiring English sources

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, that one day right down 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.

New Hampshire recently passed a jury nullification law that permits defense attorneys to inform jurors of their right to vote on conscience and void bad laws through "not guilty" verdicts.

The Federalist minority in the Senate opposed them, especially the endorsement of nullification, but that chamber also adopted the resolutions as written.

I guess we can't blame the man for this off-hand nullification of everything that is modern and good, and which in all likelihood have made his career longer and more lucrative.

Simply this: Nullification, a concept that should have died a century and a half ago, has been resurrected from the tomb by gun-rights extremists and is triumphing in legislature after legislature in America's deep-red states.

Or perhaps it's difficult to maintain marital unions in the state that invented nullification.

On the legal system… Jury nullification is a right that Americans have had since the 18th century.

Her political positions were steadfastly conservative, and she notably argued for the nullification of federal laws that were in conflict with states' rights.

With loan-deposit interest differential as one of the biggest sources of revenue for any banks, the nullification of the hypotheses that local customers would still prefer local banks poses serious questions.

You thought that "nullification" had been rendered inoperative by the Civil War?

The delegates seemed to feel that nullification and interposition were the emptiest of threats, not worth wasting their breath on.