Acts Quote by Thomas Woods

Nullification means insurrection and war; and the other states have a right to put it down.

— Andrew Jackson

I think our founding fathers believed in nullification. There's no doubt about that.

— Matthew Whitaker

I consider, then, the power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by one state, incompatible with the existence of the Union,…

— Andrew Jackson

That the several states who formed that instrument, being sovereign and independent, have the unquestionable right to judge of its infraction; and that a…

— Thomas Jefferson

The only constitutional exception to the power of making treaties is, that it shall not change the Constitution.… On natural principles, a treaty, which…

— Alexander Hamilton

The Constitution in all its provisions looks to an indestructible union disposed of indestructible States.

— Anonymous

An act against the Constitution is void; an act against natural equity is void.

— James Otis

[An] act of the Congress of the United States... which assumes powers... not delegated by the Constitution, is not law, but is altogether void…

— Thomas Jefferson

“The social contract known as 'The Constitution' has been null and void since the last person who signed it, died. Even then, it was…

— Dane Whalen

Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory…

— John Marshall

It was Thomas Jefferson who said that we should not allow the courts to have a monopoly on the interpretation of what is constitutional…

— Walter E. Williams

[The purpose of a written constitution is] to bind up the several branches of government by certain laws, which, when they transgress, their acts…

— Thomas Jefferson