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The Kentucky Resolutions of 1799, while claiming the right of nullification, did not assert that individual states could exercise that right. Rather, nullification was described as an action to be taken by "the several states" who formed the Constitution. The Kentucky Resolutions thus ended up proposing joint action, as did the Virginia Resolution.
The cover of a book containing the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions along with the Report of 1800 and other supporting documents. This edition was produced by editor Jonathan Elliot in 1832 at the height of the nullification crisis. These documents formed the philosophical foundation for the nullification movement.
November 10 – Thomas Jefferson publishes the Kentucky Resolution condemning the Sedition Act as abuse of power. [1] November 16 – The state legislature of Kentucky adopts the Kentucky Resolution. [2] Mid-November – A British squadron intercepts and searches the USS Baltimore sloop-of-war. Adams dismisses the ship's captain, Isaac Phillips ...
A new, Republican-led joint resolution would declare Kentucky "a sanctuary state" from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's regulations on fossil fuel-fired power plants, directing the state ...
[13] The key sentence, and the word "nullification" was used in supplementary Resolutions passed by Kentucky in 1799. [14] Madison's judgment is clearer. He was chairman of a committee of the Virginia Legislature, which issued a book-length Report on the Resolutions of 1798, published in 1800 after they had been decried by several states. This ...
The amendment’s most resounding defeat came in Robertson County in Northern Kentucky, where "no" received 74% of the vote. Meanwhile, the most narrow margin came from McCreary County, along the ...
Kentucky's lone Democratic representative in Congress thinks if Amendment 2 passes on the state's general election ballot, it will be "the most disastrous thing to happen to education in the ...
Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions; C. Compact theory; N. ... Report of 1800; T. John Taylor of Caroline This page was last edited on 7 April 2021, at 21:20 (UTC). ...