nugatory
adj.
- Of little or no importance; trifling.
- Having no force; invalid.
"To have declared that the best means shall not be used, but those alone with which the power given would be
nugatory, would have been to deprive the legislature of the capacity to avail itself of experience, to exercise its reason, and to accommodate its legislation to circumstances."
McCulloch v. Maryland, 17 U.S. 316, 413 (1819).
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