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Andrew Jackson's Objection Of Pullity In The United States

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On December 10, 1832, President Andrew Jackson issued the proclamation of the nullity, which stated that States and municipalities have banned void federal laws. It also threatened to enforce the proclamation with the use of federal weapons. Although the commitment of Congress soon defused the situation, proclamation of Jackson made it clear that the federal Government was the supreme power in the United States and its willingness to use the army to ensure its supremacy. The debate on the question of nullity actually began before Andrew Jackson. Step of highly protectionist tariff of 1828 upset many people in South Carolina. They felt that tariffs on foreign manufactured goods, designed to protect the child the United States manufacturing sector,
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