...nullification threat. In his memorable Nullification Proclamation, he declared South Carolina's action to be "incompatible with the existence of the Union, contradicted...inconsistent with every principle on which it was founded, and destructive of the great object for which it was formed." 30 He expressly denied the Jeffersonian...

...against South Carolina. At the time of the nullification crisis in South Carolina, Jackson declared that “the power to annul a law of the United States,...inconsistent with every principle on which it was founded, and destructive of the great object for which it was formed.” In words that brooked no opposition,...

...that the states were sovereign within their own sphere, but that the nullification of federal law was "incompatible with the existence of the Union, contradicted expressly by the letter of the Constitution." 10 And like Madison, Jackson adhered to the concept of divided or dual sovereignty. As conceived by...

...Charleston harbor and collecting a force of United States troops along the Carolina border. “I consider the power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by one state, incompatible with the existence of the Union,” he wrote; and when a South Carolina congressman, about...

...refutation, that no Federative Government could exist without a similar provision. . . . I consider the power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by one State, incompatible with the existence of the Union, contradicted expressly by the letter of the Constitution,...

...argument. He denounced the nullifiers, in language he ordered the printer to italicize: "I consider, then, the power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by one State, incompatible with the existence of the Union, contradicted expressly by the letter of the Constitution,...

...legitimnately passed federal law was “incomimpatible with the existence of the Union, comitradicted expressly by the letter of the Constitution, unauthorized...inconsistent with every principle on which it was founded, and destructive of the great object for which it was formned.” 49 Historical practice, compact...

...local interest, the party spirit, of a State, or of a prevailing faction of a State." I consider, then, the power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by one State, incompatible with the existence of the Union, contradicted expressly by the letter of the Constitution,...

...the source of our prosperity in peace.” Jackson forcefully stated that he considered any attempt to “annul a law of the United States, assumed by one State, incompatible with the existence of the Union, contradicted expressly by the letter of the Constitution,...