interposition
- n the action of interjecting or interposing an action or remark that interrupts
- n the act or fact of interposing one thing between or among others
- The path of interposition led in a direction that sober Southerners faced with aching hearts.
- When interposition failed in Virginia, Kilpatrick had another suggestion: close the public schools.
- He insisted that interposition implied 1) a state's right to nullify federal laws, 2) a state governor's right to call out state forces to defend states' rights.