USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Lesson Summary. Nullification is the concept that a state can ignore a federal law deemed unconstitutional. Thomas Jefferson and James Madison first raised this concept in 1798 in response to the Alien and Sedition Act.

Detailed explanation-2: -nullification crisis, in U.S. history, confrontation between the state of South Carolina and the federal government in 1832–33 over the former’s attempt to declare null and void within the state the federal Tariffs of 1828 and 1832.

Detailed explanation-3: -Many Southerners, in response to tariff laws that favored the North, supported the concept of “nullification.” Nullification held that states had the right to disobey laws of Congress they thought were unconstitutional. Webster argued that nullification would destroy the Union.

Detailed explanation-4: -Nullification is the constitutional theory that individual states can invalidate federal laws or judicial decisions they deem unconstitutional, and it has been controversial since its inception in early American history. There have been three prominent attempts by states at nullification in American history.

Detailed explanation-5: -In response to the Tariff of 1828, vice president John C. Calhoun asserted that states had the right to nullify federal laws.