Word: nullificationist
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...turned out, last week's Virginia Resolution was a very watered-down version of the original. Earlier drafts, which bluntly declared the court decision null and void (after the style of Calhoun's nullificationist South Carolina in 1832), were abandoned when it became apparent that they would probably not pass the general assembly. Many assemblymen feel that outright nullification would be absurd and futile; other Virginians fear that it might interfere with the Gray Plan (TIME...
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