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Who was John C. Calhoun and what did he believe?

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John C. Calhoun loved his country. But he also loved his home state of South Carolina, and he supported its institution of slavery. He believed in states' rights that if a state didn't believe a federal law was constitutional, it didn't have to obey it.

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