Comments by "rejvaik" (@rejvaik00) on "James A Garfield: The ‘What-if?’ President" video.

  1. Basically the American Marcus Aurelius it's really sad he never got a chance to put it to use And we can only wonder at what might have been
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  2. Very good quote
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  3. Thanks for the recommendation
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  4. Andrew Johnson Andrew Jackson had already left the presidency a good while ago, in the late 1830s Funny enough Andrew Jackson was also prepared to go to War over the much larger question of Federal law overruling State law and States Rights to disregard Federal law or a State right to secede This was regarding South Carolina who was trying to circumnavigate tariffs imposed by the government of Washington DC on the Southern US states and was threatening with secession in 1832 a good 30 years before the US civil war At the time however when South Carolina was threatening none of the other US states in the south backed up South Carolina And the crisis was averted by Jackson's administration passing both the "Force Bill" (which allowed for use of US military force if states attempted nullification and refused to pay tariffs) and Henry Clay's "Tariff Bill of 1833" (which reduced the tariffs to rates set earlier in 1816) Sadly though the crisis and War itself was avoided the idea of Nullification and States Rights were propelled into the national discourse and discussion And were later the reason why South Carolina again threatened and then followed through with the threat of secession being the first US state to do so
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