USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -After working with Vice President John C. Calhoun, President Andrew Jackson eventually reduced tariffs and granted states the right to nullify federal laws if they were viewed as unconstitutional.

Detailed explanation-2: -Calhoun claimed that states could nullify federal laws, earning him the nickname of “Arch Nullifier, ” and Jackson threatened to use the army if South Carolina forced the issue. In 1832, he became the first vice president to resign, deciding he would have greater influence over the crisis in the Senate.

Detailed explanation-3: -In response to the Tariff of 1828, vice president John C. Calhoun asserted that states had the right to nullify federal laws.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -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.