When Virginia and Kentucky in the late 1700s and South Carolina in the 1830s refused to follow federal law they were practicing nullification.
nullification. Nullification is the idea that states have the right to invalidate or reject Federal Laws that they deem unconstitutional.
Nullification
nullify or cancel federal laws
The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions advocated for state's rights and strict constructionist of the US Constitution. Written by Thomas Jefferson in 1789 and James Madison in 1799, these resolutions declared specifically that the Alien and Sedition Acts were unconstitutional.
States' Rights is the theory that state and local government's actions and laws in dealing with social and economic problems are supreme to federal actions and laws. The theory goes back to the founding of our nation. Jefferson and Madison advocated states' rights in the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions. John C. Calhoun's Theory of Nullification, the South's justification for declaring independence from the US, also advocates states' rights.
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When Virginia and Kentucky in the late 1700s and South Carolina in the 1830s refused to follow federal law they were practicing nullification.
it claimed that individual states have the right to interpret federal laws
claimed that individual states have the rights to interpreter federal laws
The main goal of the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions was to push for states' rights as opposed to deference to the federal government. The Kentucky and Virginia legislatures both argued that the states had the right to declare federal laws unconstitutional.
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None. The States do not have this right.
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 Kentucky Resolutions, authored by Jefferson, went further than Madison's Virginia Resolution and asserted that states had the power to nullify unconstitutional Federal Laws.
The Kentucky and Virginia resolution meant that a state could assert their rights if they felt the federal government was becoming too strong. Thomas Jefferson was the person who wrote the Kentucky resolution while James Madison wrote the resolution for the state of Virginia.
The resolves hinted that states had the power to nullify federal laws.
The resolves hinted that states had the power to nullify federal laws.