negative

“Upon my word, I can’t eat a morsel,” answered the lady […] There is indeed in perfect beauty a power which none almost can withstand; for my landlady, though she was not pleased at the negative given to the supper, declared she had never seen so lovely a creature.

And as to the Constitutionality of laws, that point will come before the Judges in their proper official character. In this character they have a negative on the laws.