nullification

1. The states'-rights doctrine that a state can refuse to recognize or to enforce a federal law passed by the United States Congress (synset 106195483)
   is a type of: states' rights - a doctrine that federal powers should be curtailed and returned to the individual states
2. The act of nullifying;
   Making null and void;
   Counteracting or overriding the effect or force of something (synset 100232434)
   is a type of: change of state - the act of changing something into something different in essential characteristics
   subtypes:

   • cancellation - the act of cancelling; calling off some arrangement
   • vitiation - nullification by the destruction of the legal force; rendering null
   • counteraction, neutralisation, neutralization - action intended to nullify the effects of some previous action
   • neutralisation, neutralization - action intended to keep a country politically neutral or exclude it from a possible war
   same as: override

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