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Cal⋅houn

  [kal-hoon, kuhl-]
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–noun
John Caldwell, 1782–1850, vice president of the U.S. 1825–32.
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Cal·houn   (kāl-hōōn')   
Vice President of the United States (1825-1832) under John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson. In his political philosophy he maintained that the states had the right to nullify federal legislation that they deemed unconstitutional.
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