JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
AGE OF THE COMMON MAN
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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The Federal government is the absolute power and states must obey
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States created the federal government and therefore states have absolute authority over the federal government
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -States’ rights is a political philosophy that emphasizes the rights of individual states to fight what proponents believe to be the encroaching power of the United States government.
Detailed explanation-2: -Federalism is the theory of distributing power between national and state governments.
Detailed explanation-3: -The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.
Detailed explanation-4: -A key issue was states’ rights. The Southern states wanted to assert their authority over the federal government so they could abolish federal laws they didn’t support, especially laws interfering with the South’s right to keep slaves and take them wherever they wished. Another factor was territorial expansion.