JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
AGE OF THE COMMON MAN
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A state legislature can declare a law it believes to be unconstitutional as null and void within its borders
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Only the U.S. Supreme court can declare a federal law to be unconstitutional
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The federal government was created by the American people and therefore no state has the right to leave it
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Each state should be free to conduct its own foreign policy without the interference of the federal government
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Detailed explanation-1: -A staunch defender of the institution of slavery, and a slave-owner himself, Calhoun was the Senate’s most prominent states’ rights advocate, and his doctrine of nullification professed that individual states had a right to reject federal policies that they deemed unconstitutional.
Detailed explanation-2: -What was John C. Calhoun’s nullification theory as set forth in “The South Carolina Exposition"? His theory was that the US Constitution was based on a compact among the sovereign states and so each of the 13 sovereign states had the right to nullify or reject a federal law that it considered unconstitutional.
Detailed explanation-3: -In this case, South Carolina claimed it could nullify the Tariff of 1828. Calhoun argued that the tariff was unconstitutional because it violated the trust of the states. If Congress passed a law that was unconstitutional, states had the right to nullify the law.
Detailed explanation-4: -The nullification crisis was a sectional political crisis in the United States in 1832 and 1833, during the presidency of Andrew Jackson, which involved a confrontation between the state of South Carolina and the federal government.