JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
JACKSONIAN AMERICA
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Question
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Declaration of Independence
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Bill of Rights
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Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
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Federalist Papers
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Kentucky and Virginia resolutions and the South Carolina exposition and protest both believed that states had the power and sovereignty over certain matters and that the federal government had no business passing laws in regard to it. Both of them were concerned with the concept of states’ rights.
Detailed explanation-2: -John C. Calhoun, Andrew Jackson’s vice president and a native of South Carolina, proposed the theory of nullification, which declared the tariff unconstitutional and therefore unenforceable.
Detailed explanation-3: -The document stated that if the tariff was not repealed, South Carolina would secede. It stated also Calhoun’s Doctrine of nullification, i.e., the idea that a state has the right to reject federal law, first introduced by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in their Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions.