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To: BelegStrongbow
...he just wanted to establish a national bank, ahh, the simplicity of old days, yes?

Actually Jackson killed off the 2nd Bank of the United States (2BUS). The issue that sparked the nullification crisis was the tariff of abominations.

22 posted on 02/04/2009 5:50:54 AM PST by SeeSharp
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To: SeeSharp

Thank you, my memory was fuzzy. Interesting that SC foresaw that tariffs were death on prosperity better than a century before Smoot-Hawley.


26 posted on 02/04/2009 6:48:37 AM PST by BelegStrongbow (Hypocrisy never bothers the hypocrite but hubris goes before a fall)
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