Original sentence: In this specific case, however, the nullifier position was even rejected by most states’ rights supporters outside of South Carolina who considered it an extreme and rash position.The theoretical issue related to the very nature of the United States Constitution and whether it was a product of the people qua citizens of states, i.a compact of states (in which case states are the final judges on constitutionality), or a product of the people qua citizens of the central government (in which the people as citizens of states lost many of the prerogatives enjoyed under the Articles of Confederation)
Edited sentence: As historian Forest McDonald wrote, “Of all the problems that beset the United States during the century from the Declaration of Independence to the end of Reconstruction, the most pervasive concerned disagreements about the nature of the Union and the line to be drawn between the authority of the general government and that of the several states.The theoretical issue related to the very nature of the United States Constitution.” In this specific case, however, the nullifier position was even rejected by most states’ rights supporters outside of South Carolina who considered it an extreme and rash position