“Don’t like obeying the constitution? You shouldn’t have agreed to it.“
I wonder if anybody told John Calhoun that?
“Later that year in response to the tariff, Vice President John C. Calhoun of South Carolina anonymously penned the South Carolina Exposition and Protest, articulating the doctrine of nullification. The doctrine emphasized a state’s right to reject federal laws within its borders and questioned the constitutionality of taxing imports without the explicit goal of raising revenue.”
So here we see a prime example of how those noble and beleaguered Southern gentlemen would pick and choose, not their own cotton, but rather which side of the argument they’d take. I wonder if “Heads I win, tails you lose” was a Southern expression.
If your argument is "because one side advocated it, it was okay for the other side to do it.", then that is a stupid argument. It was not okay for either side to do it.