Sentence examples for nullification to from inspiring English sources

From supporting nullification to wanting to re-litigate the Civil War to suggesting that women should ask their husbands for permission to enter politics, the list goes on.

Garrow made much use of jury nullification to limit the punishment for his convicted clients, in a time when many crimes carried the death penalty (the so-called Bloody Code).

In the past, juries in the South have used nullification to acquit whites accused of hate crimes against blacks, so the doctrine does have some nasty history behind it.

South Carolina later took Nullification to the extreme when it became the first state to secede in 1860 and the place where the first shots of the Civil War were fired in 1861.

The "code words" change over time (from "nullification" to "states' rights" to Pawlenty's "state sovereignty"), but the idea is the same -- we don't care what the feds say, we retain the right to ignore any laws we don't feel like following.

When the Tariff of 1832 only slightly modified the Tariff of 1828, the South Carolina legislature decided to put Calhoun's nullification theory to a practical test.

After closing arguments last week, a juror passed a note to the judge saying she had seen graffiti in a bathroom stall reading "Google jury nullification," referring to the concept of jurors voting defendants not guilty because they don't support a law or the potential punishment for the crime.

"The only appeal they can really make is almost one of jury nullification, which is to appeal to a jury's sense of fundamental fairness and to try and paint the government as overreaching".

His war against the Second Bank of the United States and his opposition to nullification in South Carolina, however, allowed Henry Clay to bring fiscal conservatives and southern states' rights proponents together in a coalition with those who still believed in the National Republican program of a protective tariff and federally financed internal improvements.

Since judges serving on courts are under no obligation to inform jurors of their right to nullification, we must inform ourselves.

The Missouri Republican Party thinks linking guns to nullification works well, said Matt Wills, the party's director of communications, thanks in part to the push by President Obama for tougher gun laws.