"The right of interposition... is the fundamental principle of our system... A State, acting in her sovereign capacity, has the right to declare an unconstitutional act of Congress to be null and void within her limits." — John C. Calhoun, South Carolina Exposition and Protest, 1828
Calhoun's Exposition was written primarily in opposition to which federal policy?
- A
The rechartering of the Second Bank
- B
The Specie Circular
- C
The Indian Removal Act
- Dcheck_circle
The Tariff of 1828, called the 'Tariff of Abominations'
Explanation
Calhoun anonymously authored the Exposition to protest the protective Tariff of 1828, which southerners argued unfairly burdened agricultural exporting states for the benefit of northern manufacturers.