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repeal

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1. repeal - Noun

2. repeal - Verb

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To recall; to summon again, as persons.

To recall, as a deed, will, law, or statute; to revoke; to rescind or abrogate by authority, as by act of the legislature; as, to repeal a law.

Recall, as from exile.

Revocation; abrogation; as, the repeal of a statute; the repeal of a law or a usage.

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I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution. Ulysses S. Grant

There are no good laws but such as repeal other laws. Andrew Johnson

Violent crime is a solved problem - all they have to do is repeal the laws that keep those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women from arming themselves, and violent crime evaporates like dry ice on a hot summer day. L. Neil Smith

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known. Abraham Lincoln

Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature. Phyllis Schlafly

As a doctor I will make it my mission to heal the nation, reverse the course of Obamacare and repeal every last bit of it. Rand Paul

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