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: -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: -Through self-purchase or voluntary emancipation. What was John C. Calhoun’s plan to protect the South and Slavery? Leave slavery alone, return runaway slaves, give the south its rights as a minority, and restore the political balance.