Word: annulling
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...similarity to the nullification doctrine which precipitated the Civil War. The former rests simply on the assumed right of Congress to refuse to enact subsidiary legislation to the Eighteenth Amendment since it is not directly obligated to do so. The latter assumes the right of an individual state to annul legislation distasteful...