JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
PRESIDENT ANDREW JACKSON
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states’ rights
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the spoils system
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due process
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suffrage
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Detailed explanation-1: -In response to the Tariff of 1828, vice president John C. Calhoun asserted that states had the right to nullify federal laws.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -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.