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overrule Verb [-ruling, -ruled] 1. to reverse the decision of (a person or organization with less power): the President overruled the hardliners in the party who wanted to use force 2. to rule or decide against (an argument or decision): the initial judgment was overruled by the Supreme Court
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Is it not the glory of the people of America, that, whilst they have paid a decent regard to the opinions of former times and other nations, they have not suffered a blind veneration for antiquity, for custom, or for names, to overrule the suggestions of their own good sense, the knowledge of their own situation, and the lessons of their own experience? If a pertinacious minority can control the opinion of a majority, respecting the best mode of conducting it, the majority, in order that something may be done, must conform to the views of the minority; and thus the sense of the smaller number will overrule that of the greater, and give a tone to the national proceedings. But for my fate, which overrules all, I had been now in Government employ. |
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