Quotes About Nullification

#1. Nullification is the Jeffersonian idea that the states of the American Union must judge the constitutionality of the acts of their agent, the federal government, since no impartial arbiter between them exists.

Thomas Woods

#2. Thus the right of nullification meant by Mr. Jefferson is the natural right, which all admit to be a remedy against insupportable oppression.

James Madison

#3. That the several states who formed that instrument, being sovereign and independent, have the unquestionable right to judge of its infraction; and that a nullification, by those sovereignties, of all unauthorized acts done under colour of that instrument, is the rightful remedy.

Thomas Jefferson

#4. Nullification means insurrection and war; and the other states have a right to put it down.

Andrew Jackson

#5. Nullification is not a 'defense' recognized by law, but rather a mechanism that permits a jury, as community conscience, to disregard the strict requirements of law where it finds that those requirements cannot justly be applied in a particular case.

David L. Bazelon

#6. In this relation, then, the proposed government cannot be deemed a national one; since its jurisdiction extends to certain enumerated objects only, and leaves to the several states, a residuary and inviolable sovereignty over all other objects.

James Madison

#7. Who was there to guide them? The words of self-obsessed politicians, egotistical media personalities, power-crazed newspaper magnates and half-mad clerics? Who could reason sensibly when supplied with all the wrong information for all the wrong reasons?

Robert Rankin

#8. The circumstances we ask God to CHANGE are often the circumstances God is using to CHANGE US.

Mark Batterson

#9. If you elect to join the herd you are immune. To be accepted and appreciated you must nullify yourself, make yourself indistinguishable from the herd. You may dream, if you dream alike.

Henry Miller

#10. Women remain dramatically under-represented as characters in film when compared to their representation in the U.S. population.

Sharon Lawrence

#11. Alaric had his head up, sniffing the wind. "The stench of death lies heavy on the air." Luke

Cassandra Clare

#12. I think of Dermot Healy as the heir to Patrick Kavanagh.

Seamus Heaney

#13. Men do not make laws. They do but discover them.

Calvin Coolidge