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How did the Ordinance of Nullification restrict appeals to federal courts?
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Nullification Crisis
U.S. Pres. Andrew Jackson issued his “Proclamation to the People of South Carolina” on December 10, 1832, in response to South Carolina's refusal to be bound by federal tariffs. In it Jackson asserted the supremacy of the federal government and rejected South Carolina's argument that it, as a state, had the right to reject laws made by the federal government that it deemed unconstitutional. Jackson's proclamation was an escalation of the Nullification Crisis, and some argue that it helped lay the foundation for the American Civil War.
The Ordinance of Nullification explicitly forbade the appeal of any measure related to the ordinance to federal courts. By prohibiting these legal challenges, South Carolina sought to prevent the federal judiciary from reviewing or overturning the state's declaration that the federal Tariffs of 1828 and 1832 were null, void, and nonbinding within its borders. This restriction was a key component of the state's attempt to assert its sovereignty and block the enforcement of federal law.12