Who wrote Exposition and Protest and emerged by the early 1830s as the most prominent spokesman for the right of nullification?

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Exposition and Protest was written by John C. Calhoun, who emerged in the early 1830s as the most prominent spokesman for the right of nullification. This document laid out Calhoun's theory that a state had the right to nullify, or declare void, any federal law that it deemed unconstitutional. This theory was based on the belief that the Constitution was a compact between the states, and that the federal government was created by and could be dissolved by the states. Calhoun's theory of nullification was at the center of the Nullification Crisis of 1832-33, when South Carolina attempted to nullify a federal tariff law.

Who Wrote Exposition and Protest and Emerged by the Early