...the course which my sense of duty will require me to pursue. "The ordinance is founded, not on the indefeasible right of resisting acts which are plainly...unconstitutional and too oppressive to be endured, but on the strange position that any one State may not only declare an act of Congress void, but prohibit...

...Carolina's declaration made this clear. He issued a nullification Proclamation acknowledging the people's "indefeasible right of resisting acts which are plainly...unconstitutional and too oppressive to be endured." Nonetheless, South Carolina took "the strange position" that a single state could "declare an act of...

...tone, though masterly in argument. He began by remarking that the ordinance was not founded on the indefeasible right of resisting acts which are plainly...unconstitutional and too oppressive to be endured, but on the absolutely untenable ground, that one state may not only declare an act of Congress void,...

...States. Referring to the action of the convention, he said : " This ordinance is founded, not on the indefeasible right of resisting acts which are plainly...unconstitutional, and too oppressive to be endured ; but on the strange position that any one State may not only declare an act of Congress void, but...

...result from an observance of the dictates of the Convention. . . . The ordinance is founded, not on the indefeasible right of resisting acts which are plainly...unconstitutional, and too oppressive to be endured; but on the strange position that any one State may hot only declare an act of Congress void, but prohibit...

...nations." And Andrew Jackson, in his famous Nullification Ordinance, asserted — " The indispensable right of resisting acts which are plainly unconstitutional, and too oppressive to be endured." The Act of Secession was contemplated by every State, as an undoubted right, in the adoption of the...