The Kentucky Resolution, the Articles of Confederation, and the compact theory of government.
In 1798, the theories of nullification were set in motion by James Madison and Thomas Jefferson. The theories of nullification were recorded in the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions.
Nullification
claimed that individual states have the rights to interpreter federal laws
No. The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions actually encouraged the nullification of the Alien and Sedition Acts. In other words, nullifying them would make the Acts null and void.
Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Tennessee.
When Virginia and Kentucky in the late 1700s and South Carolina in the 1830s refused to follow federal law they were practicing nullification.
The federal regime had exceeded its constitutional poewers and that with regard to the Alien and Sedition Act, nullification was the "rightful remedy."
Kentucky asserted the principle of Nullification: the states had the right to nullify, or consider void. Virginia and Kentucky considered alien and sedition act unconstitutional violations of first amendments.
The Kentucky Resolution said that each state has the right and responsibility to declare a federal law unconstitutional and void. Additionally, when this is so, nullification of the law by the state is the proper remedy.
South Carolina's basic argument for nullification was that states had the right to declare federal laws unconstitutional and therefore null and void within their borders, as outlined in Thomas Jefferson and James Madison's Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions. They believed that the Constitution was a compact among the states and that states had the ultimate authority to determine the constitutionality of federal laws.
only Kentucky and Virginia supported there own resolutions