...less explicit and more ambiguous, and talked about the states having "the right and are in duty bound to interpose for arresting the progress of the evil,...authorities, rights and liberties appertaining to them."30 These unsound resolutions, in effect, were a constitutional amendment that would have made...

...right and the duty, "in case of a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous" federal usurpation of authority, "to interpose, for arresting the progress of the evil,...authorities, rights, and liberties, appertaining to them."259 Characteristically, a supplementary set of Kentucky pronouncements inspired byJefferson was...

...resolution he also argued that the states "who are parties thereto. have the right and are in duty bound to interpose for arresting the progress of the evil....authorities. rights. and liberties appertaining to them." He concluded his draft with an invitation for other states to join Virginia in declaring the acts unconstitutional...

...by the said compact, the states who are the parties thereto have the right, and are in duty bound, to interpose for arresting the progress of the evil,...authorities, rights, and liberties appertaining to them.65 Like Jefferson's, Madison's draft attacked specific violations of amendments to the Constitution,...

...granted by the said compact, the states, who are parties thereto, have the right, and are in duty bound, to interpose, for arresting the progress of the evil,...authorities, rights, and liberties, appertaining to them." 16 What did "interpose" suggest? The use of a state militia or the show of words? In any event, when...

...exceeded its powers, "the States who are parties [to the compact], have the right and are in duty bound to interpose for arresting the progress of the evil,...authorities, rights and liberties appertaining to them." The Virginia resolutions and those of Kentucky, which nullified [75] the Sedition Act, raised the specter...

...support the doctrines of nullif1cation and secession. Madison's Virginia Resolutions call upon the states "to interpose for arresting the progress of the evil,...authorities rights, and liberties appertaining to them." He did not say, as Jefferson did, that the federal government is the creation of the states; he viewed...

...constitution (or "compact"), "the States, who are parties there to, have the right and are in duty bound to interpose for arresting the progress of the evil,...authorities, rights, and liberties appertaining to them."14 This did not mean "nullification" of national laws by individual states but rather the combined...

...granted by the said compact, the states who are parties thereto, have the right, and are in duty bound, to interpose for arresting the progress of the evil,...authorities, rights and liberties appertaining to them."75 Hence Madison, not Jefferson, initially spoke in the Resolutions in what became the language...

...granted by the said compact, the states, who are partners thereto, have the right and are in duty bound to interpose for arresting the progress of the evil,...authorities, rights, and liberties appertaining to them.68 In Madison's "Report of 1799-1800," which was the answer of the Virginia House of Delegates...