Nullification Crisis, the 1832 confrontation between the U.S. government and South Carolina over the latter's attempt to nullify a federal law
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Jury nullification, a legal term that refers to a jury's ability to deliver a verdict knowingly in contradiction to written law
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Agitation increased with the publication of David Walker's Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World in 1829, Nat Turner's slave rebellion in 1831 and Andrew Jackson's handling of the nullification crisis that same year.
Justice Story added an appendix to the second volume of the 1833 edition where he quotes President Andrew Jackson’s December 10, 1832 Proclamation which deals with South Carolina’s Nullification Laws.
South Carolina passed the Ordinance of Nullification of the two tariffs and began preparations to defend the nullification against federal enforcement.
National Basketball Association rules did not allow for the nullification of a goal scored with too many players until a rule change in March 2009.
He resigned his U.S. Army commission a year later on October 31, 1833, reportedly due to the issue of nullification in his home state.