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On Nov. 24, 1832, a South Carolina state convention passed an Ordinance of Nullification, declaring the tariffs of 1828 of 1832 “null and void” within the state borders. While conventional history teaches that the nullifiers were quickly stopped by federal...
Today in history, on Jan. 13, 1833, Andrew Jackson wrote a scathing letter to Martin Van Buren that explained his indignation toward South Carolina for nullifying the recent federal Tariff of 1832. The 1832 act followed its 1828 predecessor, which many called the...
by Thomas J. DiLorenzo, LewRockwell.com In his 1850 Disquisition on Government, John C. Calhoun argued that a written constitution would never be sufficient to contain the plundering proclivities of a central government. Some mechanisms for assuring consensus among...
