interposition

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There were even these fake legal theories known as "interposition" to resist the courts' orders about civil rights.

From Salon

“Of course I know interposition is invalid,” he admitted.

From Salon

In his famous "I Have a Dream" speech, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke specifically of the governor of Alabama "having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification."

From Salon

The words of the proclamation to “fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation” resonate anew.

From Washington Post

In his Thanksgiving proclamation in 1863 during the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln urged citizens to “fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it.”

From Washington Post