The nullification crisis was a sectional political crisis in the United States in 1832 and 1833, during the presidency of Andrew Jackson, which involved...

Look up nullification or nullify in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Nullification may refer to: Nullification (U.S. Constitution), a legal theory that...

including Jackson's understanding of the constitution during the nullification crisis and the president's right to interpret the constitution. Franklin...

amendments. During the "nullification crisis" of 1828–1833, South Carolina passed an Ordinance of Nullification purporting to nullify two federal tariff laws...

this Nullification Crisis, Jackson issued his Proclamation to the People of South Carolina, which strongly denied the right of states to nullify federal...

theory of state nullification has never been legally upheld by federal courts, although jury nullification has. The theory of nullification is based on a...

but the rhetoric of this flare-up echoed South Carolina's 1832 nullification crisis and Thomas Jefferson's 1798 Kentucky Resolutions. In February 1855...

Party. In response to the nullification crisis, Jackson threatened to send federal soldiers into South Carolina, but the crisis was defused by the passage...

the principle of nullification as a means to prevent a tyranny of a central government. Calhoun supported the idea of nullification through a concurrent...

Resolutions had stopped short of actually advocating nullification.) [citation needed] The Nullifier Party operated almost exclusively in South Carolina...