Richard Henry Lee
Virginia and Kentucky resolution
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.
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The resolution was offered by Richard Henry Lee, as spokesman for the Virginia delegation. (Advocates of such a resolution, esp. John Adams of Massachusetts, urged Virginia to offer the resolution as a means of garnering more support from the Southern colonies.)
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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Richard Henry Lee
the right to nullify
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Nullification