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The Nullification Crisis, in U.S. history, was a confrontation between the state of South Carolina and the federal government in 1832–33 over the former’s attempt to declare null and void within the state the federal Tariffs of 1828 and 1832.
In American political discourse, states' rights are political powers held for the state governments rather than the federal government according to the United States Constitution, reflecting especially the enumerated powers of Congress and the Tenth Amendment.
The states are sovereign entities and can decide to nullify a federal law that is inconsistent with the Constitution to protect their citizens. The federal and state governments share power and must negotiate over the application of federal laws to the states, reaching a compromise regarding nullification.
3 Ιουλ 2019 · The doctrine of states’ rights holds that the federal government is barred from interfering with certain rights “reserved” to the individual states by the 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
States’ rights, the rights or powers retained by the regional governments of a federal union under a federal constitution. In the United States, Switzerland, and Australia, the powers of the regional governments are those that remain after the constitution enumerates the powers of the central government.
The historian Forrest McDonald, describing the split over nullification among proponents of states' rights, wrote, "The doctrine of states' rights, as embraced by most Americans, was not concerned exclusively, or even primarily, with state resistance to federal authority."
Definition. The states' rights doctrine is a political theory that emphasizes the rights and powers of individual states over the federal government. This doctrine argues that the Constitution grants specific powers to the federal government while reserving all other powers for the states, thereby promoting a decentralized form of governance.
