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To: Peter O'Brien who wrote (347885)	1/25/2003 8:11:33 PM
From: KonKilo	Respond to of 769670

What about the "Nullification Crisis" of 1832? We came very close to having a Civil War at that time, and the issue there was clearly tariffs (not slavery). Good point... And how about the current states' rights fight in California over medicinal cannabis? Several municipalities there have plainly told the Feds that they have no authority over California state matters. I have seen the word 'secede' more than once, in reading the various accounts. The trip triggers may change, but the friction of states' rights vs fed gov't remains a constant.

To: Peter O'Brien who wrote (347885)	1/26/2003 2:42:20 PM
From: Johannes Pilch	Respond to of 769670

John Calhoun’s Nullification theory also had slavery at its root. Nullification was just an attempt, a trial balloon, to help shield the south from federal laws that might regulate slavery. Calhoun wrote that if southerners could cancel tariff law, they could also cancel laws regulating slavery. “Calhoun developed the idea of nullification--first put forth in the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of 1798--as a strategy for the South to preserve slavery in the face of a Northern majority in Congress. His support of the measure, disclosed midway through his term, was not shared by President Jackson who feared nullification's power to split the Union. This difference of opinion permanently distanced the president and vice president.” memory.loc.gov (see section titled “Nullification Crisis”) By 1850, slavery was just about the only issue causing strife between the two American factions. Slavery, including its racial aspect, was certainly enough to cause the thing to blow. When we read Confederate leaders in the years leading to war, we find the main issue of concern with them is slavery. “…the new [Confederate] Constitution has put at rest forever all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institutions-African slavery as it exists among us-the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization. This was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution.” (Alec Stephens, Vice President of the Confederacy, 1861) fordham.edu