nullification crisis
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- if one state could ignore federal laws, it could lead to the breakup of the country.
- I will send troops to South Carolina, and will push the congress to pass the Force bill
- President Jackson was completely against the idea of nullification. He figured that if one state could just brush off federal laws, it might spark a breakup of the whole country. So, he sent in troops to South Carolina and pushed Congress to pass a "Force Bill" that would give him the power to use military force if he had to.
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- We don't like high tariffs! It hurts the economy, so we are going to ignore their laws
- States have the right to reject federal laws they believe are unconstitutional.
- The Nullification Crisis of the 1830s was a conflict between South Carolina and President Andrew Jackson’s federal government over high tariffs. South Carolina asserted the right to nullify federal laws, highlighting state versus federal authority tensions. John C. Calhoun, argued that states had the right to reject federal laws they believed were unconstitutional.
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- Ill lower tariffs and you back down from nullifying?
- Ok, we will back down.
- In the end, everything worked out peacefully. Henry Clay came up with a compromise tariff that gradually lowered the rates, and South Carolina decided to back off from its nullification threat. This whole situation highlighted the ongoing struggle between states' rights and federal power—something that would eventually play a big role in the Civil War.
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