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Nullification: Nullification was first expressed in the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of 1798-1799. These resolutions declared that the Federalists’ Alien and Sedition laws were unconstitutional. The resolutions were written by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. On December 10, 1832, President Andrew Jackson proclaimed to the people of South Carolina that disputed a states' right to nullify a federal law. The Nullification Crisis was a sectional crisis in 1832-1833 that involved a confrontation between South Carolina and the Federal Government. Andrew Jackson was the president while this was happening. The crisis guranteed after South Carolina declared that the federal Tariffs of 1828 and 1832 were unconstitutional and for that
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