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6012. NULLIFICATION, States and.—

Every State has a natural right in cases not
within the compact (casus non foederis) to
nullify of their own authority all assumptions
of power by others within their limits. Without
this right they would be under the dominion,
absolute and unlimited, of whosoever might
exercise this right of judgment for them.—
Kentucky Resolutions. Washington ed. ix, 469. Ford ed., vii, 301.
(1798)