Nullifiers

Southern support for the nullifiers' cause failed to materialize, thanks, in part, to the administration's relative restraint (Cole 1993, 167,179; Freehling 1966, 284-85).

Wilson lauds the article, and mine is the only Madison book that incorporates its finding that Madison prevaricated in his campaign against the Nullifiers in 1828-33.

Dionne, Jr., The New Nullifiers: Health Care Opponents Want to Take

Health-care reform nullifiers taking us back to 1830s.

The sound nullifiers will cut out noise pollution from printers, passing traffic or chatting colleagues.

Federalist obstructionism, he argues, served as the model for South Carolina nullifiers and secessionists.

Hamiltonians and Jeffersonians fought over the scope of congressional power, Webster and Story squared off against the nullifiers, and Unionists and secessionists alike justified the Civil War--all in terms of an interminable debate over whether the states or the Union was originally sovereign, what the various events since independence might have done to the original arrangements, and (finally) whether individual states had the legal right to leave the Union.

(70) To be sure, there would still be the need to screen the first jury for potential "nullifiers"--that is, jurors who would be unable to consider fairly a verdict of "guilty" because of their desire to preclude even the risk of a death sentence.

He suggests that it was this "singular history and political culture" that produced the rabid fire-eater proslavery advocates and nullifiers 150 years later.

Pope Pius XI, with prophetic vision, declared that "its [Nazism] machinations, from the beginning, had no other aim than war of extermination." He branded the Nazi oppressors of the Church in Germany as "the nullifiers and destroyers of the Christian West."

After populist president Andrew Jackson repudiated the South Carolina antitariff nullifiers in the name of national union, explains Randall G.

Stephan Landsman, Of Mushrooms and Nullifiers: Rules of Evidence and the American Jury, 21 ST.

He carved out "a third way, between Federalists and AntiFederalists, strict and broad constructionists, Hamilton and Jefferson, and ultimately nationalists and nullifiers."

Calhoun and his fellow South Carolina nullifiers did not prevail when faced with (1) Andrew Jackson's threat to use federal troops to collect tariffs accruing in South Carolina, and (2) a promised relaxation of the tariff.

the place of my birth forbids the ridiculous nonsense of abolitionism!" Frank Blair noted that "the absconding abolitionists from the north, who, in my county at least, are the principle leaders of the Anti-Benton party, find it necessary to turn pro-slavery nullifiers to free themselves from the suspicion which attends their place of birth." Blair then added smugly: "I can well afford to entertain the opinions of Washington and Jefferson, upon the subject of slavery, and to express them without incurring the suspicion of disloyalty to the institutions of the south." (44)