The Union was under siege. South Carolinian firebreathers were thundering defiance against federal law and federal authority, threatening armed resistance and touting each state’s right to nullify ...
On this day in 1833, President Andrew Jackson wrote to Vice President Martin Van Buren expressing his opposition to South Carolina’s defiance of federal authority. He closed his letter with the ...
COLUMBIA — The message was pretty simple. It was written in all-capitalized white letters on blue shirts: "NULLIFY." About 50 people, many of them wearing those shirts, gathered in the S.C. Statehouse ...
Following the election of many states-rights advocates to South Carolina’s legislature, the state responded to Henry Clay’s tariff of 1832 by calling for a convention to denounce the tax. At the ...
In 1832, blaming its struggling economy on supposedly high tariffs, South Carolina declared that the existing federal import levies would no longer apply to foreign goods landed in the state, ...
Do state legislatures have the authority - the right - to nullify federal laws, as our own Missouri General Assembly appears poised to do? Last year, a majority of Missouri lawmakers enacted a statute ...
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