USA HISTORY

JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850

PRESIDENT ANDREW JACKSON

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
To nullify a law means ____
A
to agree to the law
B
to void or cancel the law
C
to secede
D
to vote on the law
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -To nullify something means to make it invalid or ineffective. A peace treaty is an attempt to nullify aggression and division within a region. If you take a null, or a zero, and make it into an action you can take, and you’ve got nullify-the act of making something void or zero-like.

Detailed explanation-2: -Jury nullification occurs when jurors, based on their own sense of justice, refuse to follow the law and acquit a defendant even when the evidence presented seems to point to an incontrovertible verdict of guilty.

Detailed explanation-3: -nullify means to make void or to render invalid. “Nullification” is the act of making something void or may mean the state or condition of being void. “Nullity” means legally void.

Detailed explanation-4: -Some common synonyms of nullify are abrogate, annul, invalidate, and negate.

Detailed explanation-5: -/ˌnʌl ənd ˈvɔɪd/ having no legal force: The change in the law makes the previous agreement null and void. The election was declared null and void.

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