nullifier

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So when horses named Andrew Jackson and Nullifier appeared at the same racetrack in Richmond, Virginia, thousands of people saw their sporting and political interests overlap.

From Slate • Jan. 2, 2018

On the racetrack, at least, Jackson won and Nullifier lost.

From Slate • Jan. 2, 2018

It did the latter by making Tyler, an out-and-out Nullifier, its Vice-President in 1840.

From History of the United States, Volume 3 by Andrews, Elisha Benjamin

The great Nullifier and the great Reformer were both Titanic, in the vastness and comprehensiveness of their views, in their unrelenting self-assertion, in their metaphysics, and in their theories of government.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 110, December, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various

Virtue, integrity, justice, and so on, are all ridiculous, and empty words, when pronounced by that merchant, inveighing against the so called Nullifier, who demonstrated the advantages of free havens.

From Why a National Literature Cannot Flourish in the United States of North America by Rocchietti, Joseph