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Georgia. General Assembly Report adopted by the Legislature of Georgia on the resolutions of South Carolina and Ohio ...

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00267.016 Author/Creator: Georgia. General Assembly Place Written: Milledgeville, Georgia Type: Pamphlet Date: 14 January 1829 Pagination: 3 p. ; 23 x 14.3 cm. Order a Copy

Title continues, " ... in relation to the powers of the general government and state rights, and to the subject of slavery." 20th Congress, 2nd session. Report concludes that the writers of the Constitution did not intend all power to be consolidated in the federal government. Agrees with South Carolina's state rights doctrines and declares that the protective tariff laws are unconstitutional.

The Nullification Crisis was a sectional crisis during the presidency of Andrew Jackson over the issue of protective tariffs passed by the federal government in 1828 and 1832 that benefited trade in the northern states but caused economic hardships for the agricultural Southern states. In response, a number of South Carolina citizens endorsed the states' rights principle of "nullification," which was enunciated by John C. Calhoun, Jackson's vice president until 1832. South Carolina adopted the Ordinance of Nullification, which declared both the tariffs of 1828 and 1832 null and void within state borders. Senator Henry Clay mediated a compromise between South Carolina and the federal government in 1833 but the crisis deepened the divide between the north and the south and planted the seeds for the Civil War.

Georgia. General Assembly, 1753-1752

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