MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
PRESIDENT JOHN ADAMS FROM ALIEN AND SEDITION ACTS TO XYZ AFFAIR
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the “Midnight Judges”
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the Sedition Act
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the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions argued that states should be able to authorize the nullification, cancellation, of laws they felt were harmful to their states. The argument of states’ rights was also made in regard to the Alien and Sedition Acts. This led to the states’ rights argument in the American Civil War.
Detailed explanation-2: -The resolutions defended civil liberties and states’ rights.
Detailed explanation-3: -The resolutions argued that the states had the right and the duty to declare unconstitutional those acts of Congress that the Constitution did not authorize. In doing so, they argued for states’ rights and strict construction of the Constitution.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Kentucky Resolution declared in part, “[T]he several states who formed that instrument [the Constitution], being sovereign and independent, have the unquestionable right to judge of its infraction; and that a nullification, by those [states], of all unauthorized acts….is the rightful remedy.”
Detailed explanation-5: -The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions were primarily protests against the limitations on civil liberties contained in the Alien and Sedition Acts rather than expressions of full-blown constitutional theory.