Passed by a state convention on November 24, 1832, it led, on December 10, to President Andrew Jackson's proclamation against South Carolina, the Nullification Proclamation of 1832, which sent a naval flotilla and a threat of sending government ground troops to enforce the tariffs.

Passed by a state convention on November 24, 1832, it led, on December 10, to President Andrew Jackson's proclamation against South Carolina, which sent a naval flotilla and a threat of sending federal troops to enforce the tariffs ; Jackson authorized this under color of national authority, claiming in his 1832 Proclamation Regarding Nullification that " our social compact in express terms declares, that the laws of the United States, its Constitution, and treaties made under it, are the supreme law of the land ; and for greater caution adds, " that the judges in every State shall be bound thereby, anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding.

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