since it was the responsibility of the state rather than that of the
             federal government to make improvements within a single state. In nullificationd crisi
             give date Jackson had to deal with the question of proper division of power between state
             and federal government more directly. South Carolina was a state where the planter class
             greatly prospered and where slavery was most concentrated and undisturbed. Hit hard by
             the Panic of 1819, South Carolinians emphatically resented protectionist tariffs. Political
             leaders in South Carolina voiced their intents of protecting their own interests by coming
             up with the concept of nullification. Nullification gave states the right to judge the
             constitutionality of federal actions. Jackson's own vice president, John C. Calhoun of
             South Carolina, defended his home state's proclamation in his unsigned Exposition and
             Protest. In it he stated that in the case of any disagreement between the federal
             government and a state, a special state convention should be held where the decision is
             made whether to nullify or affirm the federal law. Calhoun asserted that this was the only
             way to protect the interests of the minority against the tyranny if the majority. Though
             sympathetic to state's rights and dis
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