Nullifier Party
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The Nullifier Party was a short-lived political party based in South Carolina in the 1830s. Started by John C. Calhoun, it was a States' rights party that supported the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, holding that States could nullify federal laws within their borders.
Calhoun outlined the principles of the party in his South Carolina Exposition and Protest (1828), a reaction to the "Tariff of Abominations" passed by Congress and signed into law by President John Quincy Adams.
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