nullifier

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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

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 Gildersleeve, Basil L. (Basil Lanneau)

But four years after the death of the great nullifier, his disciples and followers dared to consummate a crime, the consequences of which he shrank from inviting.

From William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist by Grimké, Archibald Henry

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 Ogg, Frederic Austin

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 Ogg, Frederic Austin