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the state had the power to nullify the alien act and sedition act enacted by the federalist
The Virginia Plan called for a bicameral legislature that was based on population. The Kentucky Plan called for each state only having 1 legislative representative.
The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions were written in secret in 1798-1799. They argued for strict constructionism of the Constitution and state's rights.
That states should and could decide when Congress was passing unconstitutional laws.
Federal Rights
James Madison and Thomas Jefferson
The Kentucky Resolutions (Thomas Jefferson) and the Virginia Resolutions (James Madison) set the basic arguments for states' rights. Both documents seemed to support the rights of the states to interpret the Constitution by saying that if an individual state considered an act of Congress in violation of, or in conflict with the Constitution, that state could then declare that act (law) null and void (not enforceable) within the borders of that state. John C. Calhoun would base his doctrine of Nullification on the arguments set forth in the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions.
The resolves hinted that states had the power to nullify federal laws.
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