Nullification in the United States

Nullification

United States Constitution

According to the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, about its article titled NULLIFICATIONthomas jefferson first suggested the doctrine of nullification in the second Kentucky Resolutions (1799) , where he asserted that the sovereign states are the only proper judges of whether the federal government has violated the Constitution and “that a nullification [by] those
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Nullification in the U.S. Legal History

Summary

The doctrine, devised by John C. Calhoun, that a state has the power to nullify a federal legislation within its borders.