Views on the federal government -- The Nullification Crisis provides evidence into Andrew Jackson's political and constitutional thinking. While Jackson believed in a strict construction of the Constitution and in states' rights, he believed that when the Constitution had delegated power to the federal government, the federal government had to be supreme.

Beliefs in personal freedoms -- The Nullification Crisis also revealed the depths of alienation which existed among the cotton planters of the Deep South as early as the 1830s. This alienation did not go away, nor did the desire to seek to formulate a constitutional construction that could alleviate planter grievances - namely, economic domination by northern commercial interests and the fear that the federal government might tamper with the institution of slavery. In many ways, the Nullification Crisis was a rehearsal for the political and constitutional crisis of the 1850s that would culminate in the American Civil War.

12th amendment and the "corrupt bargain" -- 12th Amendment is an amendment to the constitution of United States which describes the procedure of selecting President and Vice President and Corrupt bargain is the term used to refer to the incidents about Political agreement in the American history. In elections of 1824, the race for white house was razor thin with a winner engaging in a crooked deal that became known as the "Corrupt Bargain".

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