He declared that no power on earth could take away from Virginia the right to make laws for herself, and that in Annulling a wholesome law at the request of a favoured class in the community "a king, from being the father of his people, degenerates into a tyrant, and forfeits all right to obedience."
"The War of Independence"
John Fiske
Lay thy Annulling seal upon the o'erlabored heart: drop thy healing nepenthe into the weary brain.
"War and the Weird"
Forbes Phillips R. Thurston Hopkins
At the same time there was a feeling equally general that the King's treatment of her from the very beginning of their married life had disentitled him to any kind of relief; and this sentiment was so strongly shown by the gradual diminution of the majority in favor of the bill, as it proceeded through its several stages, that Lord Liverpool, who had already abandoned the clause Annulling the marriage, eventually withdrew the whole bill, perceiving the impossibility of inducing the House of Commons to pass it when it should go down to that House.
"The Constitutional History of England From 1760 to 1860"
Charles Duke Yonge