According to my history textbook, American Pageant:
"In a similarly self-denying vein, Wilson persuaded Congress in early 1914 to repeal the Panama Canal Tolls Act of 1912, which had exempted American coastwise shipping from tolls and thereby provoked sharp protests from injured Britain."
Repeal.
I have no choice but to repeal the promotion I gave you.
Repeal means to cancel or revoke an act or law.
having a voice in the legislature would have been repeal
In parliament they decided to repeal the old law.
to cancel
Repeal is the process whereby a law or amendment is reversed.
Loyalist Anti-Repeal Union was created in 1886.
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., To suppress; to repel., Recall, as from exile., Revocation; abrogation; as, the repeal of a statute; the repeal of a law or a usage.
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., To suppress; to repel., Recall, as from exile., Revocation; abrogation; as, the repeal of a statute; the repeal of a law or a usage.
to repeal is to take something away... like a legislation (law) or rule.
The eloquent speaker voted to repeal the bill.