“Few historians would dispute that the market revolution bro…

“Few historians would dispute that the market revolution brought substantial material benefits to most northeasterners, urban and rural…Those who benefited most from the market revolution –merchants and manufacturers, lawyers and other professionals, and successful commercial farmer, along with their families — faced life situations very different from those known to earlier generations. The decline of the household as the locus of production led directly to a growing impersonality in the economic realm; household heads, instead of directing family enterprises or small shops, often had to find ways to recruit and discipline a wage-labor force; in all cases, they had to stay abreast of or even surpass their competitors.”             -Sean Wilentz, historian, “Society, Politics, and the Market Revolution, 1815-1848,” published in 1997.   Which of the following pieces of historical evidence from the United States census could best be used to support the argument in the excerpt?  

“The great and leading principle is, that the General Govern…

“The great and leading principle is, that the General Government emanated from the people of the several states, forming distinct political communities, and acting in their separate and sovereign capacity, and not from all the people forming one aggregate political community; that the Constitution of the United States is, in fact, a compact, to which each state is a Party, . . . and that the several states, or parties, have the right to judge of its infractions. . .I conceive to be the fundamental principle of our system, resting on facts as certain as our revolution itself, . . . and I firmly believe that on its recognition depend the stability and safety of our political institutions.”                                                                         John C. Calhoun, Address to the Southern States, 1831 Prior to Calhoun’s speech the idea of state’s rights was expressed in: