Nullification
South Carolina Declares “Tariff of Abominations” Null and Void
On Nov. 24, 1832, a South Carolina state convention passed an Ordinance of Nullification, declaring the tariffs of 1828 of 1832 “null and void” within the state borders. While conventional history teaches that the nullifiers were quickly stopped by federal...
Jury Nullification: How “We the People” Can Overrule the Government
Trial by Jury. Thomas Jefferson considered it “the only anchor ever imagined by man by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.” Jury nullification makes that possible, which is why the government doesn’t want us to know, learn, or use it....
Thomas Jefferson’s Solution from the Revolution
“A nullity” and “we declare these acts void” This was the bold conclusion about British Acts that Thomas Jefferson came to in his powerful 1774 pamphlet, A Summary View of the Rights of British America. Written nearly two years before the...
Prelude to Independence: Thomas Jefferson Declares British Acts Null and Void
“A nullity” and “we declare these acts void” This was the bold conclusion about British Acts that Thomas Jefferson came to in his powerful pamphlet A Summary View of the Rights of British America. Written nearly two years before the...