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→Rejection of Jacksonian "states' rights": clarify -- conservatism back in the day was understood from a Hamiltonian view of government
====Rejection of Jacksonian "states' rights"====
====Rejection of Jacksonian "states' rights"====
Due to his leading role among the Wisconsin Republican Party, Howe was favored by conservative elements for U.S. senator in 1857. A prominent issue in the campaign was states' rights, a topic debated over amid tensions over slavery. The theory of nullification, originally developed by [[John C. Calhoun]] in a pro-states' rights revolt against President [[Andrew Jackson]] decades prior, was used by a faction of Republicans against the Fugitive Slave Act.<ref name=p93/> The doctrine was ideologically led by Carl Schurz, who Howe later quarreled with.
Due to his leading role among the Wisconsin Republican Party, Howe was favored by classically conservative, Whiggish political elements for U.S. senator in 1857. A prominent issue in the campaign was states' rights, a topic debated over amid tensions over slavery. The theory of nullification, originally developed by [[John C. Calhoun]] in a pro-states' rights revolt against President [[Andrew Jackson]] decades prior, was used by a faction of Republicans against the Fugitive Slave Act.<ref name=p93/> The doctrine was ideologically led by Carl Schurz, who Howe later quarreled with.
Howe refused to support the argument of states' rights against the Fugitive Slave Act, deeming the popular sovereignty doctrine (notably used by Northern Democrat Stephen A. Douglas to deceptively perpetuate slavery under the guise of "democracy") repulsive and anathema to traditional Whig principles.<ref name=p93/> Due to the state party's legislative caucus favoring the states' rights argument, Howe lost nomination to James R. Doolittle.
Howe refused to support the argument of states' rights against the Fugitive Slave Act, deeming the popular sovereignty doctrine (notably used by Northern Democrat Stephen A. Douglas to deceptively perpetuate slavery under the guise of "democracy") repulsive and anathema to traditional Whig principles.<ref name=p93/> Due to the state party's legislative caucus favoring the states' rights argument, Howe lost nomination to James R. Doolittle.