Abstract

The Kentucky and Virginia resolutions are the political statements that were drafted in 1798. They are legislative laws adopted by the Republicans as a position opposing the direction of the federal laws regarding foreign aliens, the press law, and unconstitutional sedition, according to the Republican legislator who argued through these decisions the right and duty of these states to declare null and unconstitutional (1). These federal laws, in reference to the rights and strong legitimacy of these states derived from the spirit of the Constitution of the Union of the United States. The Kentucky and Virginia resolutions were written in the period between (1798-1799) secretly by Vice President Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, respectively, as both of them referred to the resolutions as the “98 Principles” (2).

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