With the Horn of Africa on the brink of famine, need for drought relief grows. 1  Abdi Nasser Mohammed, 10, sits on the parched ground with his year-old brother, Imram, outside Garissa Town in Kenya. Some 200 families displaced by the drought are sheltering in the area.
Nullification (U.S. Constitution) Nullification, in United States constitutional history, is a legal theory that a state has the right to nullify, or invalidate, any federal law which that state has deemed unconstitutional. The theory of nullification has never been legally upheld by federal courts. The theory of nullification is based on a view that the States formed the Union by an agreement among the States, and that as creators of the federal government, the States have the final authority to determine the limits of the powe
The Nullification Crisis was a sectional crisis during the presidency of Andrew Jackson created by the Ordinance of Nullification, an attempt by the state of South Carolina to nullify a federal law passed by the United States Congress.he Nullification Crisis happened during the Jacksonion Era. When president Andrew Jackson passed the Tariff of 1828 (taxes on trade that benefited the North, but reduced sale â¦ s for the South), South Carolina excercised their constitutional right, by declaring the Tariff was null and void.