Jury nullification is the term for when a jury ... In the lead-up to the Civil War, many juries in the North refused to convict people accused of helping slaves escape. However, during the Jim ...

Many predicted schism among the states, dissolution of the Union, and a bloody civil war. President Andrew Jackson wrote to an intelligence officer that nullification “leads directly to civil ...

Having failed at nullification as a means to ignore federal laws, in 1861 South Carolina tried a different approach. They seceded from the United States, and fired artillery at the federal fort in ...