USA HISTORY

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: -John C. Calhoun loved his country. But he also loved his home state of South Carolina, and he supported its institution of slavery. He believed in states’ rights-that if a state didn’t believe a federal law was constitutional, it didn’t have to obey it.

Detailed explanation-3: -Calhoun drafted the South Carolina Exposition and Protest, stating Congress should not favor one state or a region over another. Calhoun protested once again with the States’ Right Doctrine-he argued that, bc the states had formed a national government, state power should be greater than federal power.

Detailed explanation-4: -He served under John Quincy Adams and continued under Andrew Jackson (who defeated Adams in the election of 1828, making Calhoun the most recent U.S. vice president to serve under two different presidents).