John Calhoun's Nullification Crisis

From the Articles of Confederation to the ratification of the Constitution in June, 21 1788, the concept of the power that is held between the state and the federal government in the United States was that of a blur. An example of this blur was the Nullification Crisis in which it was strongly supported by South Carolinian and vice President John Caldwell Calhoun and took place from 1832 to 1833 under the presidency of Andrew Jackson. Influenced heavily by constitutional philosophies such as the tenth amendment in which it states, “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.”and also ideals of former presidents James Madison …show more content…
Evidence such as John Calhoun’s lust for power after the incident as vice president and social factors such as the exclusion of South Carolina in the south affairs due to radical opinions can argue that. However, although John Calhoun was very influential among those of the south local Carolinian government, the concern of those that supported nullification was the welfare of the state and the only reason why they supported Calhoun was because they felt that the protective tariffs of both 1828 and 1832 was also threat to the state in which South Carolina was in. Along with that, although South Carolina was a state with its own peculiar problems during the time, it was still a southern state and the exclusion of certain things socially was not enough to withdraw the fact that all the south relied on slavery for agricultural purposes and the threat of the north and the abolitionist movement was a opposition to the South economy making South Carolina very important to the South’s slavery …show more content…
The slavery issue was due to the rise in the north’s political power in the federal government in which alarmed much of the South. South Carolina’s political and economic state was also due to the North’s majority which influenced the rules federal government but also because of previous incidents in economic development. And lastly South Carolina’s reduced nationalism and republicanism was due to its weakening state in the union as well as less representation in the government. As any other event in United States history this can tell us how life was like in the 19 century and how these problems helped develop and influence how the United States in