nullifications
Acts of voiding
Nullifications are acts of making something legally void or ineffective.
The term appears most often in legal and political contexts, where a law, contract, or decision is declared invalid: The court ordered nullifications of the fraudulent contracts.
Historically associated with states claiming power to invalidate federal laws they deemed unconstitutional.
Changes to opposite directions
- repealsFormally annuls laws
- rescissionsFormal annulments of agreements
- dissolutionsActs of formally ending
- cancellationsOfficial voidings of arrangements
revocations · abolitions · countermands · vitiation · recalls · negations · setting aside · judicial review
Placing something between others
- secessionFormal withdrawal from union
- sovereigntySupreme independent authority
- federalismDivided governmental authority system
- resistanceCapacity to withstand force
defiance · unconstitutionality · Calhoun · South Carolina · antebellum · Jackson · ordinance · federal overreach
Nullifying or emptying
- terminationsActs of bringing closure
- dissolutionsActs of formally ending
- breachesBreaks or violations
- rescissionsFormal annulments of agreements
discharges · releases · cancellations · defaults · abandonments · repudiations · frustrations · impossibility
Cancels using superior authority
- bypassesGoes around instead
- countermeasuresDefensive actions against threats
- defeatersThose who win against
- neutralizersAgents that nullify effects
disablers · workarounds · exploits · patches · blocks · circumventions · cancellations · resets
reversals
Changes to opposite directions
- repealsFormally annuls laws
- rescissionsFormal annulments of agreements
- dissolutionsActs of formally ending
cancellations · revocations · abolitions · countermands · vitiation · recalls · negations · setting aside · judicial review
interposition
Placing something between others
- secessionFormal withdrawal from union
- sovereigntySupreme independent authority
- federalismDivided governmental authority system
resistance · defiance · unconstitutionality · Calhoun · South Carolina · antebellum · Jackson · ordinance · federal overreach · autonomy
voiding
Nullifying or emptying
- terminationsActs of bringing closure
- dissolutionsActs of formally ending
- breachesBreaks or violations
rescissions · discharges · releases · cancellations · defaults · abandonments · repudiations · frustrations · impossibility · illegality
overrides
Cancels using superior authority
- bypassesGoes around instead
- countermeasuresDefensive actions against threats
- defeatersThose who win against
neutralizers · disablers · workarounds · exploits · patches · blocks · circumventions · cancellations · resets · reversions
- rejectionsno, rejection letter, refusal, denial letter, decline
nullificationsratifications
Formal validations of agreements
validations · confirmations · affirmations · endorsements · approvals
nullificationsenactments
Laws formally passed
establishments · reinstatements · enforcements · implementations · creations
- jury nullificationPanel ignores law, acquits