Question
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"The laws of the United States must be executed. I have no discretionary power on the subject - my duty is emphatically pronounced in the Constitution..
Disunion, by armed force, is TREASON. Are you ready to incur its guilt? If you are, on the head of the instigators of the act be the dreadful consequences... Fellow-
citizens of the United States! ... I rely with equal confidence on your undivided support in my determination to execute the laws - to preserve the Union by all
constitutional means."
-Andrew Jackson speaking to Congress about the Nullification Crisis
During the Nullification Crisis, South Carolina threatened to leave the Union because
it opposed the law chartering the Bank of the United States.
• it disagreed with the 'necessary and proper' clause of the Constitution.
it would not support the Tariff of 1832.
•the US government tried to abolish slavery in South Carolina.
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Answer
Andrew Jackson urged Congress to preserve the Union by all constitutional means and warned that disunion by armed force was treason.