repeal

(verb)

To cancel, invalidate, annul.

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Examples of repeal in the following topics:

  • The 21st Amendment

    • The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which had mandated nationwide Prohibition on alcohol on January 17, 1920.
    • The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.

  • British Taxes and Colonial Grievances

    • The Stamp Act Congress met in October 1765, petitioning the King and Parliament to repeal the act before it went into effect at the end of the month.
    • Parliament repealed the Stamp Act but passed the Declaratory Act in its wake.
    • Boycotts reduced the profits of British merchants, who, in turn, petitioned Parliament to repeal the Townshend Acts.
    • Parliament eventually agreed to repeal much of the Townshend legislation, but they refused to remove the tax on tea, maintaining that the British government retained the authority to tax the colonies.

  • The Calm Before the Storm

    • In response to the colonial protests over the Townshend Acts, Parliament repealed the majority of the Townshend taxes in 1770.
    • However, they did not repeal the duty on tea, which Prime Minister Lord North kept in order to assert Britain's right of taxing the colonies.
    • This partial repeal of the taxes was enough to bring an end to the non-importation movement, which colonists were using to boycott British goods, by October 1770.
    • The act also restored the tea taxes within Britain that had been repealed in 1767 and left in place the Townshend duty in the colonies.
    • The East India Company initially sought to have the Townshend duty repealed, but the North ministry was unwilling because such an action might be interpreted as a retreat from Parliament's position that it had the right to tax the colonies.

  • The Prohibition Movement

    • Economic urgency played no small part in accelerating the advocacy for repeal.
    • Many farmers who fought for prohibition now fought for repeal because of the negative effects it had on the agriculture business.
    • There was controversy on whether the repeal should be a state or nationwide decision.
    • The Eighteenth Amendment was repealed on December 5, 1933, with ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment to the U.S.

  • Sunset Laws

    • In the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001, the US Congress enacted a phase-out of the federal estate tax over the following 10 years, so that the tax would be completely repealed in 2010.
    • However, while a majority of the Senate favored the repeal, there was not a three-fifths supermajority in favor.
    • As of April 2011, Republicans in Congress have tried to repeal the sunset provision, but their efforts have been unsuccessful.

  • Minimizing Private Sanctions

    • The only way to put a complete end to crime would be to repeal all laws, a "solution" which does not have much appeal.
    • While repealing all laws would be counterproductive, "decriminalizing" some actions may be desirable if costs of outlawing them outweigh the benefits.

  • The Townshend Acts

    • This act represented a new approach for generating tax revenue in the American colonies after the repeal of the Stamp Act in 1766.
    • Merchants in the colonies, some of them smugglers, organized economic boycotts in order to pressure their British counterparts to work toward repealing the Townshend Acts.
    • On March 5, 1770—the same day as the Boston Massacre—Lord North, the new Prime Minister, presented a motion in the House of Commons that called for partial repeal of the Townshend Revenue Act.
    • Although some in Parliament advocated a complete repeal of the act, North disagreed, arguing that the tea duty should be retained to assert the right of taxing the Americans.
    • After debate, the Repeal Act received the Royal Assent on April 12, 1770.

  • Amending the Constitution

    • Those in favor of ending Prohibition feared that the 21st Amendment (set to repeal the 18th Amendment prohibiting the sale and consumption of alcohol) would be blocked by conservative state legislatures.
    • On December 5, 1933, these so-called "wets" asked for specially called state conventions and ratified repeal.

  • Disadvantages of LIFO

    • In prior budgets, the Obama Administration has proposed to repeal LIFO altogether in an attempt to generate greater tax revenues.

  • The 23rd Amendment

    • The 23rd Amendment would have been repealed by the District of Columbia Voting Rights Amendment, which proposed to give the District full representation in the United States Congress, full representation in the Electoral College system, and full participation in the process by which the U.S.