Discuss Calhoun's arguments against tariffs and Andrew Jackson's arguments against the right of a state to nullify federal laws or parts of the Constitution. .
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In the article Vice President John C. Calhoun Argues that the Tariff Disadvantages the South, the Vice President John C. Calhoun argues few points that he nullifying the Tariff proposal. First of all the advocates of the Tariff have no proof of their granted power and the congress overstepped its power, and also, Vice President John C. Calhoun believes that the Constitution was a compact between states; therefore, the state has the right of nullification. Secondly, the manufacturing States fail to share any consequences or burden of the Tariff. The Vice President Calhoun indicates that, "the fact that they urgently demand an increase, and consider any addition as a blessing, and a failure to obtain one, a curse, is the strongest confession, that whatever burden it imposes in reality, falls, not on them but on others." Thirdly, the manufacturing States attempt to use the Tariff to create a monopoly market which the south has to pay higher price for the products from the manufacturing states. The Vice President John C. Calhoun believes that the tariff is harmful for the southern states and made benefits of different states inequality. Therefore, he thought the state should have the right of nullification. .
On the other hand, in the article President Andrew Jackson Condemns the Rights of Nullification and Secession, 1832, the President Andrew Jackson's arguments against the right of a state to nullify federal laws or parts of the Constitution. First, President Jackson admits that each state has its rights, but the Union is inviolable. He said, "That the true construction of that instrument permits a State to retain its place in the Union and yet be bound by no other of its laws than those it may choose to consider as constitutional.
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