Assertion: nullification | /r/HasProperty | legal theory
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text: Nullification, in United States constitutional history, is a legal theory that a state has the right to nullify, or invalidate, any federal law which that state has deemed unconstitutional with respect to the United States Constitution (as opposed to the state's own constitution).
text: In a 2-1 decision, the appeals court said the nullification of Baca's vote was unconstitutional.
text: So no, nullification is not tied with slavery but is a legal doctrine that stands on its own.
text: In Nullification: How to Resist Federal Tyranny in the 21st Century, historian and New York Times bestselling author Thomas E. Woods, Jr. explains not only why nullification is the constitutional tool the Founders envisioned, but how it works—and has already been employed in cases ranging from upholding the First Amendment to knocking down slave laws before the Civil War.
text: The idea that nullification is a constitutional remedy originated in the Kentucky Resolutions.
text: Nullification is a constitutional theory that gives an individual state the right to declare null and void any law passed by the United States Congress which the state deems unacceptable and unconstitutional.
text: Nullification and secession, according to Calhoun, were the reserved rights of the states and therefore constitutional.
text: First, Nullification is a constitutional solution not because it is enumerated per se, but because the Constitution is a contract (technically a compact) among the States that created the federal government.
text: Nullification, in United States constitutional history, is a legal theory that a state has the right to nullify, or invalidate, any federal law which that state has deemed unconstitutional.
text: Nullification is a legal theory that a state has the right to nullify, or invalidate, any federal law it deems unconstitutional.
text: Nullification, in United States constitutional history, is a legal theory that a state has the right to nullify, or invalidate, any federal law which that state has deemed unconstitutional with respect to the United States Constitution (as opposed to the state's own constitution).
text: Nullification is the legal theory that a state has the right to nullify (invalidate) any federal law that it deems unconstitutional.
text: Nullification is unconstitutional; it nowhere appears in the Constitution.
text: Despite the benefits, there are those who insist that nullification is unconstitutional.
text: Nullification was the legal doctrine by which the Southern states defended slavery.
text: In Nullification: How to Resist Federal Tyranny in the 21st Century, historian and New York Times bestselling author Thomas E. Woods, Jr. explains not only why nullification is the constitutional tool the Founders envisioned, but how it works.
text: He later denied that nullification was a constitutional remedy, and his view has become accepted constitutional law.
text: Nullification is a constitutional theory that gives an individual state the right to declare null and void any law passed by the United States Congress which the state deems unacceptable and unconstitutional.