A history of the United States for schools . HENRY CLAY. JOHN C. CALHOUN. Carolina, now maintained the right of any state to de-cide for itself whether an act of Congress were unconsti-tutional or not ; if the state should decide such an actto be unconstitutional, it might declare it to be null andvoid, and might resist its execution within the limit ofthe state. This would be nullifying an act of was feared that South Carolina would proceed, in ac-cordance with Calhouns doctrine, to attempt to nullifythe tariff of 1828, and refuse to allow the duties leviedby it to be collected in
A history of the United States for schools . HENRY CLAY. JOHN C. CALHOUN. Carolina, now maintained the right of any state to de-cide for itself whether an act of Congress were unconsti-tutional or not ; if the state should decide such an actto be unconstitutional, it might declare it to be null andvoid, and might resist its execution within the limit ofthe state. This would be nullifying an act of was feared that South Carolina would proceed, in ac-cordance with Calhouns doctrine, to attempt to nullifythe tariff of 1828, and refuse to allow the duties leviedby it to be collected in her ports. Such an action wouldbe a long step toward breaking up the Federal Union. Early in 1830, Senator Hayne, of South Carolina, an-nounced the theory of nullification in a very powerfulspeech in the United States Senate. He was answeredHayne and by Daniel Webster, senator from Massachu-Webster. sctts, in One of the greatest speeches in theEnglish language. Such a speech was in itself proofthat love for the Union had increased very muc
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