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Henry Clay believed in states rights, meaning he thought states should decide if laws were unconstitutional or not and if they thought they were unconstitutional, they didn't have to obey them.
States wanted to nullify federal lawa that they deemed unconstitutional.
The Kentucky and Virginia resolutions.It is the U.S. state governments that were related to the issue of states rights, and not the federal government.
The issue was states rights versus federal rights. The surface issue was slavery.
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For many southerners, the states' rights issue revolved around the right to own slaves.
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The interpretation of states rights, particularly related to issue of slavery
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The civil rights bill asserted, that the civil rights of the citizen were to be protected by the federal courts against the laws of the state in which he lived. Johnson, with his states' rights views, was forced to veto the bill.
The process of deciding on the constitutionality of federal laws was as yet undefined. Jefferson and Madison, convinced that the Alien and Sedition Acts were unconstitutional, decided that state legislatures be given the power to "nullify" federal laws within those states. These resolutions were adopted, but only in these two states, and so the issue died. or That states could and should decide when Congress was passing unconstitutional laws