"We, therefore, the people of the State of South Carolina, in convention assembled, do declare and ordain... that the several acts and parts of acts of the Congress of the United States, purporting to be laws for the imposing of duties and imposts on the importation of foreign commodities...are unauthorized by the Constitution of the United States, and violate the true meaning and intent thereof and are null, void, and no law, nor binding upon this State...."
South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification, 1832
Arguments similar to those expressed in the excerpt were later employed to justify which of the following?
A. The entry into the Mexican-American War
B. The passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act
C. The secession of most Southern states
D. The ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment