nullifier
Example Sentences
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No amount of memories, mutual love or money owed should obscure the clarity of dire results: Twenty straight losses are the ultimate nullifier.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 8, 2022
The very Federalists who fought him in that day and denounced him as a traitor and nullifier lived to proclaim and practice doctrines of nullification in behalf of State's rights during the War of 1812.
From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V by Ida Husted Harper
In the list one notes with interest the names of General Thomas Cadwalader of Philadelphia, salaried lobbyist for the United States Bank, and Senator Robert Y. Hayne, the future South Carolina nullifier.
From The Reign of Andrew Jackson by Frederic Austin Ogg
I knew that I was the son of a nullifier, and the nephew of a Union man.
From The Creed of the Old South 1865-1915 by Basil L. (Basil Lanneau) Gildersleeve
Calhoun directed the nullifier campaign, though he did not throw off all disguises until the summer of the following year.
From The Reign of Andrew Jackson by Frederic Austin Ogg