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Who supported right of states to nullify federal law?

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Who supported right of states to nullify federal law?

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Jackson, who supported states’ rights but believed that nullification threatened the Union, opposed it. Calhoun differed from Jefferson and Madison in explicitly arguing for a state’s right to secede from the Union, if necessary, instead of simply nullifying certain federal legislation.