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Which amendment to the Constitution did John C. Calhoun claim protected southerners’ rights to take their slaves into western territories?

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The Fifth amendment

Step-by-step explanation:

John C. Calhoun is a Southern politician who became the 17th President of America defended the South with its institutions, especially slavery from the Federal government. The increased antislavery in the societies of the North and Nat Turner’s slave revolt, made Calhoun further active supporter of slavery and states’ rights. The Southern states were depended on the slavery system in culturally, socially, and economically.

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