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Motivation
Andrew Jackson got the Constitution correct.
Background
- Overview from the UVA Miller Center
- “As a senator in 1824, Jackson had backed the System's twin pillars of a protective tariff to foster domestic industry and federal subsidies for transportation projects (known as "internal improvements").” - Source Although he switched these views as President
- “Virginia and Kentucky resolutions against the Alien and Sedition Acts in 1798, Calhoun fashioned an argument that an individual state, acting through a formal convention, could interpose its authority to declare null and void any federal law that it deemed to violate the Constitution.” - Source