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Nullification may refer to:
- Nullification (U.S. Constitution)
Nullification is a legal theory that a U.S. State has the right to nullify, or invalidate, any federal law which that state has deemed unconstitutional. The theory is based on a view that the sovereign States formed the Union, and as creators of the compact hold final authority regarding the limits...
, a legal theory that a U.S. State has the right to nullify, or invalidate, any federal law which that state has deemed unconstitutional.
- Nullification Crisis
The Nullification Crisis was a sectional crisis during the presidency of Andrew Jackson created by South Carolina's 1832 Ordinance of Nullification. This ordinance declared, by the power of the State itself, that the federal Tariff of 1828 and the federal Tariff of 1832 were unconstitutional and...
, the 1832 confrontation between the United States government and the state of South Carolina over the latter's attempt to nullify a federal law.
- Jury nullification
Jury nullification is the process whereby a jury in a criminal case nullifies a law by acquitting a defendant regardless of the weight of evidence against him or her." Widely, it is any rendering of a verdict by a trial jury which acquits a criminal defendant despite that defendant's violation of...
, a legal term that refers to a jury's right to deliver a verdict knowingly in contradiction to written law.