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... For no sooner had he entered office than his own vice president-John C. Calhoun-began to assert a dangerous new constitutional theory: nullification.
Calhoun was forty-six years old in 1828, with a distinguished past and an apparently promising future. ... He had been vice president in John Quincy Adams administration. ...
But the fiery issue of the tariff created a dilemma for him. ... Calhoun drew his ideas from Madison and Jefferson and their Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of 1798-1799. Calhoun argued that since the federal government was a creation of the states, the states themselves-not the courts of the Congress- were the final judges of the constitutionality of federal laws. ...
In conclusion, what Calhoun had hoped, however, was that the nullification theory would never be put to the test, that it would simply pressure the federal government to reduce tariff rates. ... " Some militant South Carolinians were ready to secede from the Union, but Calhoun persuaded them to try nullification instead. ... At the same time, South Carolina elected Hayne governor and Calhoun, who had resigned as vice president, to replace Hayne as senator.
Approximate Word count = 818
Approximate Pages = 3.3
(250 words per page double spaced)
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