Andrew Jackson: Proclamation to the People of South Carolina Regarding Nullification

( 1832 ) Commentary by Christine Dee, Fitchburg State College

“I consider, then, the power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by one State, incompatible with the existence of the Union, contradicted expressly by the letter of the Constitution, unauthorized by its spirit, inconsistent with every principle on which It was founded, and destructive of the great object for which it was formed.” - Paragraph 13
“The Constitution of the United States, then, forms a government, not a league, and whether it be formed by compact between the States, or in any other manner, its character is the same. It is a government in which all the people are represented, which operates directly on the people individually, not upon the States.” - Paragraph 26

Andrew Jackson's proclamation (Library of Congress)

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