It is a crucial document in US History. In 1828 John Caldwell Calhoun penned it for the legislature of his State. While it could appear a simple protest against the tariff of abominations, it actually laid the ground for a new interpretatation of "nullification", the constitutional doctrine that Thomas Jefferson had proposed in 1798 (Kentucky Resolutions). Such a vision of the American compact became the real subject of contention between the two sections until the civil war.
Commodity money has value in itself while Fiat money has value only because it is given value. states had the right to declare Federal Laws unconstitutional and inapplicable within the state. the Union was an alliance between sovereign states.
he said the union was simply an alliance between sovereign states where states kept the right to nullify unjust federal laws.
Protective Tariffs, specifically it was against the Tariff of 1828
John C. Calhoun wrote Exposition and Protest of South Carolina.
South Carolina Exposition and Protest
The protective tarrif went up in the north, making goods more expencive in the south and the southerners did not like this. So the south desided that they could nullify it. Buth they were wrong. The reason was that they thought that the constitution did not aply to them. Like, they could abbid by the laws which they found suitable for their state. This, of course is not what the constitution is for. But john Adams did not want this for the union and there for did not allow South Carolina to abbid by them. It did create a frenzy, but was soon died off under the president's threat.
North Carolina and South Carolina
He was born in South Carolina and now lives in Illinois.
John C. Calhoun was from South Carolina
John C. Calhoun wrote Exposition and Protest of South Carolina.
The South Carolina Exposition was a document written in 1828 by Vice President John C. Calhoun, asserting the doctrine of nullification - the belief that states had the right to reject federal laws they deemed unconstitutional. It was a response to the Tariff of Abominations, which Southern states felt was unfairly benefiting the North at the expense of the South.
William Dowd
The Kentucky Resolution
states' rights
John C. Calhoun
cause he was on his period
South Carolina
Image courtesy of the Library of Congress John C. Calhoun of South Carolina ... Later that year in response to the tariff, Vice President John C. Calhoun of South ...
a state could declare an act of congress illeagal
a pamphlet written by John C. Calhoun of South Carolinapublished in 1828denounced the Tariff of 1828 (aka the Tariff of Abominations) was unjust and unconstitutional