With regards to the violation of states’ rights by Andrew Jackson, the unjust actions taken against the interests of the states verify that Andrew Jackson should be impeached. The responsibilities he held as president were not taken with the interests of states.
A paradigm of states’ rights not being present is the tariff placed on foreign goods. The protective tariff played a significant role in the American System. Southern port cities likes Charleston, South Carolina opposed the tariff due to a mass number of people in the area being planters and there was hardly any industry in the state, it was mostly an agricultural area. The planters exchanged goods such as cotton and sugar for the goods that Europeans had to offer in return, but many …show more content…
American cotton was flooding the market, largely from the newer southwestern states, and the fertility of southeastern soil was declining. South Carolina was in an economic vice and needed in some way or form a catharsis. More harm was caused to states like South Carolina rather than helping them. The anti-tariff sentiment was not innocuous for the reasons that it did not benefit southern states. The rights of southern states were clearly being …show more content…
South Carolina held a special convention whose resolution made a radical reinterpretation of the Constitution. It declared that states would then be able to disregard a federal law such as the tariff law. If two thirds of the states voted against the law, the law would then the law would be rejected, but if less than two third of the states nullifies the law then the law would still be put into action. The states that were against the decision made would have to deal with new change or leave the union if they didn’t approve. The doctrine was an indication that the power of the federal government wasn’t supreme. Jackson was against nullification. The states then didn’t have the right to decide what was best for them in regards to federal laws being passed therefore the rights of states were not being preserved and all the power then laid in the hands of the federal government.
Also the Force Bill of 1833 authorized President Andrew Jackson to use the army and navy to collect duties on the tariffs of 81828 and 1832. In response to the nullification crisis, Congress had passed the Compromise Tariff of 1833 on the same day stating that the tariffs will be slower but if one don’t pay, they will be forced to pay the tariff. Therefore the Force Act was not involved because the Compromise Tariff covered the fact that military
A paradigm of states’ rights not being present is the tariff placed on foreign goods. The protective tariff played a significant role in the American System. Southern port cities likes Charleston, South Carolina opposed the tariff due to a mass number of people in the area being planters and there was hardly any industry in the state, it was mostly an agricultural area. The planters exchanged goods such as cotton and sugar for the goods that Europeans had to offer in return, but many …show more content…
American cotton was flooding the market, largely from the newer southwestern states, and the fertility of southeastern soil was declining. South Carolina was in an economic vice and needed in some way or form a catharsis. More harm was caused to states like South Carolina rather than helping them. The anti-tariff sentiment was not innocuous for the reasons that it did not benefit southern states. The rights of southern states were clearly being …show more content…
South Carolina held a special convention whose resolution made a radical reinterpretation of the Constitution. It declared that states would then be able to disregard a federal law such as the tariff law. If two thirds of the states voted against the law, the law would then the law would be rejected, but if less than two third of the states nullifies the law then the law would still be put into action. The states that were against the decision made would have to deal with new change or leave the union if they didn’t approve. The doctrine was an indication that the power of the federal government wasn’t supreme. Jackson was against nullification. The states then didn’t have the right to decide what was best for them in regards to federal laws being passed therefore the rights of states were not being preserved and all the power then laid in the hands of the federal government.
Also the Force Bill of 1833 authorized President Andrew Jackson to use the army and navy to collect duties on the tariffs of 81828 and 1832. In response to the nullification crisis, Congress had passed the Compromise Tariff of 1833 on the same day stating that the tariffs will be slower but if one don’t pay, they will be forced to pay the tariff. Therefore the Force Act was not involved because the Compromise Tariff covered the fact that military