1833
Barron v. Baltimore, a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court ruling, was an important federalism ruling holding that the U.S. Bill of Rights applied only to…
1832
South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification declared the federal tariffs of 1828 and 1832 null and void within the state, thus starting the Nullification Crisis…
1831
Fort Hill Address by John C. Calhoun objected to a high federal tariff and invoked the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions to argue that states…
1830
Webster-Hayne Debates in January saw Democratic Senator Robert Y. Hayne of South Carolina defend states’ rights while Whig Senator Daniel Webster of Massachusetts defended…
1828
South Carolina Exposition and Protest, written anonymously by John C. Calhoun (then vice president of the United States), protested the so-called Tariff of Abominations…
1824
Gibbons v. Ogden, a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court ruling, held that the Congress’s commerce power includes authority to regulate navigation on interstate waterways, thereby…
1820
Missouri Compromise of 1820, a federal law signed on March 6, attempted to preserve the balance of power in the Congress between slave and…
1819
Dartmouth College v. Woodward, a 5-1 U.S. Supreme Court ruling, held states cannot enact laws that overturn private contracts. Thus, New Hampshire could not…
1814
Hartford Convention was series of initially secret meetings in Hartford, Connecticut, of Federalists from New England states who threatened to secede from the union…
1810
Fletcher v. Peck, a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court decision, was the first time the Court struck down a state law as violating the U.S.…
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