[r9etb]

Actually it did. It passed the state legislature in 1832.

The question was whether or not the national government would recognize it. In the event, the nullification act was never an issue, as it was mooted by the compromise.

[billbears]

What? The federal government doesn't have to formally recognize the nullification process!! Did the federal government formally recognize the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions? To say that would be saying that the federal government had sovereignty over the states, which before the War they did not. Your boys up north like Pickering and Cabot realized that in their multiple moves from 1803 to 1815 to secede from the union