• The nullification crisis was a sectional political crisis in the United States in 1832 and 1833, during the presidency of Andrew Jackson, which involved...
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  • Look up nullification or nullify in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Nullification may refer to: Nullification (U.S. Constitution), a legal theory that...
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    including Jackson's understanding of the constitution during the nullification crisis and the president's right to interpret the constitution. Franklin...
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    amendments. During the "nullification crisis" of 1828–1833, South Carolina passed an Ordinance of Nullification purporting to nullify two federal tariff laws...
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    this Nullification Crisis, Jackson issued his Proclamation to the People of South Carolina, which strongly denied the right of states to nullify federal...
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  • theory of state nullification has never been legally upheld by federal courts, although jury nullification has. The theory of nullification is based on a...
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    but the rhetoric of this flare-up echoed South Carolina's 1832 nullification crisis and Thomas Jefferson's 1798 Kentucky Resolutions. In February 1855...
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    Party. In response to the nullification crisis, Jackson threatened to send federal soldiers into South Carolina, but the crisis was defused by the passage...
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    the principle of nullification as a means to prevent a tyranny of a central government. Calhoun supported the idea of nullification through a concurrent...
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  • Resolutions had stopped short of actually advocating nullification.) [citation needed] The Nullifier Party operated almost exclusively in South Carolina...
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