Nullification (U.S. Constitution)

John C. Calhoun formulated the Nullifikationsdoktrin in the interests of the southern states, said that individual states have the right to federal laws that were harmful to them not to implement. In the crisis of 1832, when it came to the federal tariff laws of 1828 and 1832, even federal troops were deployed in South Carolina, when it had first threatened with secession. In this crisis, Calhoun acted as spokesman for the südstaatlichen planter aristocracy and the secession of 1861 called it, not least for him. In the train of the so-called Nullifikationskrise of 1832 Calhoun, 7th Vice President of the United States declared prematurely announced his resignation as First Vice President.

In the later Constitution of the Confederate States of America, the Nullifikationsdoktrin was also in the Constitution. Among other measures, this should restrict the power of the federal government.