Document #2

Source: South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification, 1832.

We, therefore, the people of the State of South Carolina in Convention assembled, do declare and ordain…That the several acts and parts of acts of the Congress of the United States, purporting to be laws for the imposing of duties and imposts on the importation of foreign commodities…and, more especially…[the tariff acts of 1828 and 1832]…are unauthorized by the Constitution of the United States, and violated the true meaning and intent thereof, and are null, void, and no law, nor binding upon this State, its officers or citizens; and all promises, contracts, and obligations made or entered into, or to be made or enter into, with purpose to secure the duties imposed by the said acts, and all judicial proceedings which shall be hereafter had an affirmance thereof, are and shall be held utterly null and void.

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