“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 . . . And we, the People of South Carolina . . . Do further Declare that we will not submit to the application of force, on the part of the Federal Government, to reduce this State to obedience; but that we will consider the passage, by Congress, of any act . . . to coerce the State . . . to be null and void, inconsistent with the longer continuance of South Carolina in the Union . . .”
South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification, 1832
The arguments expressed in the excerpt are most similar to those expressed by which of the following?
a. Colonists protesting British taxation in the 1760s and 1770s
b. Abolitionists demanding an immediate end to slavery in the 1840s and 1850s
c. Farm and labor groups calling for governmental economic regulation in the 1880s
and 1890s
d. Anti-imperialists condemning United States foreign policy in the early 1900s