Excerpt from South Carolina’s Ordinances of Nullification, November 24, 1832
Whereas the Congress of the United States by various acts, purporting to be acts laying duties and imposts on foreign imports, but in reality intended for the protection of domestic manufactures and the giving of bounties to classes and individuals engaged in particular employments, at the expense and to the injury and oppression of other classes and individuals, and by wholly exempting from taxation certain foreign commodities, such as are not produced or manufactured in the United States, to afford a pretext for imposing higher and excessive duties on articles similar to those intended to be protected, bath exceeded its just powers under the constitution, which confers on it no authority to afford such protection, and bath violated the true meaning and intent of the constitution, which provides for equality in imposing the burdens of taxation upon the several States and portions of the confederacy: And whereas the said Congress, exceeding its just power to impose taxes and collect revenue for the purpose of effecting and accomplishing the specific objects and purposes which the constitution of the United States authorizes it to effect and accomplish, hath raised and collected unnecessary revenue for objects unauthorized by the constitution.
Use the excerpt to answer the question.
What issue at the root of growing sectionalism does the ordinance highlight?
A.
Northern interests prospering without the benefit of slavery
B.
federal government taking actions perceived to harm the South
C.
taxes and tariffs being passed without Southern representation in Congress
D.
Southern efforts to extend slavery westward being blocked by commerce laws
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