"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
The states' rights argument advanced here continued to shape sectional conflict by influencing which later development?
- Acheck_circle
Southern justifications for secession in 1860-1861
- B
Northern arguments for personal liberty laws
- C
The Free Soil Party's platform of 1848
- D
The American Colonization Society's mission
Explanation
Calhoun's doctrine of state sovereignty and nullification provided the constitutional foundation that southern leaders later invoked to justify secession after Lincoln's election.