The process of nullification may refer to:

• Declaring a law to be unconstitutional and have the chance to be nullified or invalidated
• Declaring a law to be null or void in a jurisdiction, or refusing to enforce a law.
• The legal theory that a U.S. State has the right to nullify, or invalidate, any federal law which that state has deemed unconstitutional. Nullification is a legal theory that a US State has the right to nullify or invalidate any federal law which that state has deemed unconstitutional. A US state is any one of the fifty subnational entities of the United States of America that share Sovereignty with the federal government Constitutionality is the status of a law, a procedure or an act's accordance with the laws or guidelines set forth in the applicable Constitution.
• Jury nullification, a legal term that refers to a jury's right to deliver a verdict in contradiction to written law. Jury nullification means making a law void by jury decision in other words "the process whereby a jury in a criminal case effectively nullifies a law by acquitting a defendant regardless A jury a sworn body of persons convened to render a rational, impartial Verdict (a finding of fact on a question officially submitted to them
• Body nullification, the practice of removing body parts. Body modification (or body alteration) is the permanent or semi-permanent deliberate altering of the human body for non-medical reasons such as sexual enhancement
• Physical nullification, a hypothesized process which results when ordinary mass/energy encounters "negative" mass/energy. Not to be confused with annihilation which involves anti-matter. Annihilation is defined as "total destruction" or "complete obliteration" of an object having its root in the Latin nihil (nothing In Particle physics and Quantum chemistry, antimatter is the extension of the concept of the Antiparticle to Matter, where antimatter is composed

Nullification and attempts at nullification in the US

• The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions nullified the Alien and Sedition Acts in Kentucky and Virginia. The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions (or Resolves) were important political statements in favor of States' rights written secretly by Vice President Thomas The Alien and Sedition Acts were four bills passed in 1798 by the Federalists in the United States Congress —who were waging an undeclared naval war with France
• The Hartford Convention, in which New England Federalists nullified Thomas Jefferson's embargo and even considered secession from the United States of America. The Hartford Convention was an event in 1814-1815 in the United States during the War of 1812 in which New England 's opposition to the war reached History See also History of New England New England's earliest inhabitants were Algonquian -speaking Native Americans including the The Federalist Party (or Federal Party) was an American political party in the period 1792 to 1816 with remnants lasting into the 1820s Thomas Jefferson (April 13 1743 – July 4 1826 was the third President of the United States (1801–1809 the principal author of the Declaration of Independence The United States of America —commonly referred to as the
• The Nullification Crisis in the United States of America, in which South Carolina passed legislation legalizing its invalidation of objectionable federal laws. The Nullification Crisis was a sectional crisis during the presidency of Andrew Jackson created by the Ordinance of Nullification, an attempt by the The United States of America —commonly referred to as the South Carolina ( is a state in the southern region ( Deep South) of the United States of America. The federal government of the United States is the central United States Governmental body established by the United States Constitution.
• Georgia's nullification of the Treaty of Hopewell, a treaty made by the US government with the Cherokee Nation. See also Cherokee See also Chickasaw See also Choctaw The Treaty of Hopewell may refer to one of three different treaties Georgia confiscated Cherokee land and improvements, violating the treaty.
• Refusal by Arkansas to enforce the US Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education 1954 school desegregation ruling. The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest judicial body in the United States and leads the federal judiciary. Brown v Board of Education of Topeka, 347 US 483 (1954 was a Landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court, which overturned earlier
• Perhaps the most notable current example is the nullification of US drug prohibition law by over a dozen states which have legalized medical marijuana. Medical cannabis refers to the use of the Cannabis plant as a physician-recommended Herbal therapy as well as synthetic THC and Cannabinoids
• Arcata, California was the first city to pass an ordinance that bars city employees (including police and librarians) from assisting or cooperating with any federal investigations under the PATRIOT Act that would violate civil liberties. Arcata is a small city adjacent to the Arcata Bay (northern portion of Humboldt Bay in Humboldt County, California, United States. The USA PATRIOT Act, commonly known as the Patriot Act, is a controversial Act of Congress that U Other cities and localities have acted similarly.

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