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- Title
History and the Recovery of the Past: John C. Calhoun and the Origins of Nullification in South Carolina, 1819-1828.
- Authors
Wood, W. Kirk
- Abstract
The article discusses the historiography of the origins of the South Carolina Nullification Movement from 1819 to 1828, with a particular focus on the role that the U.S. Vice President John C. Calhoun played in the movement. An overview of the supporters of South Carolina's nullification, or Nullifiers', attitudes towards the U.S. Constitution, federalism, the Founding Father James Madison, the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions of 1798, slavery, nationalism, states' rights and the American Revolution, is provided.
- Subjects
SOUTH Carolina; UNITED States; NULLIFICATION (States' rights); CALHOUN, John C. (John Caldwell), 1782-1850; FEDERAL government of the United States; SOUTH Carolina state politics &; government, 1775-1865; SLAVERY in the United States; STATES' rights (American politics); MADISON, James, 1751-1836; UNITED States. Constitution; NINETEENTH century; HISTORY; HISTORIOGRAPHY
- Publication
Southern Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the South, 2009, Vol 16, Issue 1, p46
- ISSN
0735-8342
- Publication type
Article