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USS John C. Calhoun (SSBN-630), a James Madison-class fleet ballistic missile submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for John C. Calhoun (1782–1850), the Democratic legislator and statesman.
Nullification is a legal theory that a state has the right to nullify, or invalidate, any federal law it deems unconstitutional. ... USS John C. Calhoun (SSBN-630 ...
The best known statement of the theory of nullification during this period, authored by John C. Calhoun, was the South Carolina Exposition and Protest of 1828. Calhoun asserted that the Tariff of 1828, which favored the northern manufacturing states and harmed the southern agricultural states, was unconstitutional. Calhoun argued that each ...
John C. Calhoun, S.C. Governor Robert Hayne, General James Hamilton and other leaders drafted the Nullification Papers in the second-floor drawing room. South Carolina's first effort at nullification occurred in 1822. Its planter class believed that free black sailors had assisted Denmark Vesey in his planned slave rebellion.
The South Carolina Exposition and Protest, also known as Calhoun's Exposition, was written in December 1828 by John C. Calhoun, then Vice President of the United States under John Quincy Adams and later under Andrew Jackson. Calhoun did not formally state his authorship at the time, though it was widely suspected and later confirmed.
John C. Calhoun* SSBN-630 Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Co. 4 June 1962 22 June 1963 15 September 1964 28 March 1994 Disposed of through Ship-Submarine Recycling Program, 1994 Ulysses S. Grant: SSBN-631 General Dynamics Electric Boat: 18 August 1962 2 November 1963 17 July 1964 12 June 1992
The city of Charleston, S.C., began dismantling a 100-foot-tall statue of former vice president John C. Calhoun early Wednesday, a day after officials voted to bring it down. Where statues have ...
As Senator and Governor, he was a leading figure in the Nullification Crisis and, along with John C. Calhoun and James Hamilton Jr., a vocal proponent of the doctrines of states' rights, compact theory, and nullification; his 1830 debate in the Senate with Daniel Webster is considered a defining episode in the constitutional crisis which ...