Andrew Jackson Pro-Impeachment
President Andrew Jackson violated states’ rights when he was dealing with south Carolina in the nullification crisis, he issued a proclamation to south Carolina that went against the rights given to each state that allows them to nullify a federal law that they do not agree upon. His proclamation also weakened the states’ power and used it to strengthen his view of government supremacy. We stand for impeachment of Andrew Jackson because he used his presidential influence to overrule the states’ rights.
At this point in the 1830s, the unionist philosophy was very strong, the philosophy was “one nation under god, indivisible”. This gave America a sense of a strong independent "nation", with a plan for developing national internal improvements – which were to develop the nation with roads, canals, railroads, and the
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These acts outlined a set of procedures from the Constitution which gave the state the power to declare a federal law, such as the tariff law, and proceed to disregard it. But on December 10, 1832, President Andrew Jackson issued a Nullification Proclamation to the people of South Carolina, in response to the nullification movement, which stated that states are forbidden from nullifying federal laws this completely breached the states' rights given to them in the convention. He also threatened to enforce the proclamation with the use of federal arms. Although congressional compromise soon defused the situation, Jackson's proclamation made it clear that he believed the federal government was the supreme power in the United States and he was willing to use the military to ensure its supremacy. This shows us the true nature of Jackson’s political and constitutional strategy. He believed in a strict construction of the Constitution and in states' rights giving the government