One anecdote about this politician notes his reply to Andrew Jackson's toast of "Our unionÂ—it must be preserved" with his own toast of "The union: next to our liberties, most dear."
One anecdote about this politician notes his reply to Andrew Jackson's toast of "Our unionÂ—it must be preserved" with his own toast of "The union: next to our liberties, most dear." His posthumously published "Disquisition on Government" argued for the concept of "concurrent majority," in which a majority of state legislatures would have to agree with a federal law for it to be valid. That idea underpinned this man's angry response to the Tariff of 1828, the "South Carolina Exposition and Protest." FTP, name this man who served as Vice-President to both John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson, and who put forward the concept of nullification.
One anecdote about this politician notes his reply to Andrew Jackson's toast of "Our unionÂ—it must be preserved" with his own toast of "The union: next to our liberties, most dear."
John C. Calhoun