The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions


 

Virginia & Kentucky Resolutions

These states viewed the Alien & Sedition Acts as unconstitutional because they violated the 1st Amendment and deprived citizens of their rights . Showed the balance of power between the states & the federal government remained a controversial issue. 

 

 

Nullification

Principle that states had the right to nullify, or consider void, any act of Congress that they deemed unconstitutional. A major factor in the march toward Civil War.