to be unconstitutional. While John Calhoun argued that the Constitution was based on false assumptions and that a minority of the nation could reassume its independence. However, Jackson saw the truth. He knew that if a state could ignore the laws then the Union would cease to exist. Because of Jackson’s strong will and the Force Bill (allowing more federal power with the president’s authority to execute revenue laws), South Carolina backed out and the Union was saved….for a time. For the largest effects from this crisis were; that secession was necessary to protect slavery, since the majority resided in the North and their laws would become the country’s, and that South Carolina would never succeed without the help of the other slave states. In less then two decades they would have that support, and then the War to Save the Union would begin....
