Mary Chesnut’s diary of the Civil War years in South Carolina is one of our best glimpses into life on the homefront in the Confederacy. This excerpt is from the earliest days of the Civil War.
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“Nullification” and the Primacy of the Federal Government
In 1828, responding to the “Tariff of Abominations,” South Carolinian John Calhoun composed an essay entitled “Exposition and Protest” in which he argued that states had the right to “nullify” or cancel out laws of the Federal or–in Calhoun’s term “general”–government.