nov 29, 1832 - Nullification Crisis
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The quarrel over the protective tariff reached a crisis point in 1832. Nullifiers in the S.C. legislature won a two-thirds majority, called a special convention and officially declared the Federal Protective Tariff unconstitutional and therefore null and void in the state of South Carolina. These ideas were expressed in a document called the South Carolina Exposition which was written by Calhoun. This action (Nullification) is significant in that it furthered earlier arguments by Jefferson and Madison in the Virginia and Kentucky resolutions, and is raised again as States rights issue prior to the Civil War.
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