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Jefferson's Kentucky Resolves: States' Rights and Federal Authority

Jefferson's Kentucky Resolves articulate the belief that states retain the right to self-government and can contest the federal government's overreach. Asserting that the Constitution is a contract between states and the federal government, Jefferson contends that any federal act beyond its delegated powers is void. This principle emphasizes a decentralized government and the importance of state sovereignty, as the federalists claimed that the people - not states - formed the federal union, leading to ongoing debates about the role of the Supreme Court in nullifying unconstitutional laws.

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Jefferson's Kentucky Resolves: States' Rights and Federal Authority

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  1. Jefferson’s Kentucky Resolves... That the...states composing the United States of America are not united on... submission to their general government

  2. Jefferson’s Kentucky Resolves... that, by a [contract] under the...title of a Constitution for the United States,

  3. Jefferson’s Kentucky Resolves... they [made] a general government [and] delegated to that government certain definite powers

  4. Jefferson’s Kentucky Resolves... reserving, each State to itself, the...right to their own self-government (10th Amendment)

  5. Jefferson’s Kentucky Resolves... and that whenever the general government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force

  6. Jefferson’s Kentucky Resolves... THUS... according the Jefferson, only the states can decide if the federal government has overstepped its powers

  7. Jefferson’s Kentucky Resolves... Federalists argued that “We the PEOPLE”—not the states— had made the contract with the federal government—and that it was up to the Supreme Court to nullify unconstitutional laws

  8. Jefferson’s Election: Revolution of 1800 (1) Peaceful transfer of power (from one political party to the opposing one) through ballots, not bullets (2) Jefferson’s famous Inaugural quote: “We are all Republicans; we are all Federalists.”

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