The Nullification Crisis during Jackson’s Presidency prefigured one of the main issues of the civil war.
Were the states mere vassals of the very national government that they created, or did they have an equal say in deciding what is Constitutional.
Jefferson and Madison of the Virginia and Kentucky Resolves of 1798 defended state’s rights,as had the Anti-Federalists. Hamilton and the Federalists wanted a ruling national government.
If they do have that say they can deem the second amendment irrelevant (as some states appear to have done already), then the first, then the fifth, then the 13th...