MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
PRESIDENT JOHN ADAMS FROM ALIEN AND SEDITION ACTS TO XYZ AFFAIR
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XYZ Affair
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states’ rights
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Kentucky and Virginia resolutions
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frigate
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions were political statements drafted in 1798 and 1799 in which the Kentucky and Virginia legislatures took the position that the federal Alien and Sedition Acts were unconstitutional.
Detailed explanation-2: -Drafted in secret by future Presidents Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, the resolutions condemned the Alien and Sedition Acts as unconstitutional and claimed that because these acts overstepped federal authority under the Constitution, they were null and void.
Detailed explanation-3: -The resolutions argued that the federal government had no authority to exercise power not specifically delegated to it in the Constitution.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions stated that the Alien and Sedition Acts were unconstitutional. They helped establish the practice of being able to declare acts of federal government as unconstitutional. They set the precedent that states could nullify unfair acts of the federal government.
Detailed explanation-5: -The political theory that that the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions (1798) advocated is known as nullification.