...Nullification, he said, was illegal and that he considered "the power to annul a law of the United States ... incompatible with the existence of the Union, contradicted...destructive of the great object for which it was formed." Jackson also reminded the southerners that although he was born a South Carolinian, as the "First Magistrate...

...without fear of refutation, that no federative government could exist without a similar provision. ... 7 consider, then, the power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by one State, incampatibk with the existence of the Union, contradicted expressly by the letter of the Constitution,...