...parties," and declared that "the states who are parties therefore have the right, and are in duty bound, to interpose for arresting the progress of the evil,...authorities, rights and liberties appertaining to them."158 Even though the Alien and Sedition Acts were clearly unconstitutional, Madison is attacked...

...view, wherein states always retained "the right, and are in duty bound, to interpose ... and [maintain] within their respective limits, the authorities, rights, and liberties appertaining to them." United in a common government, each state could guard its prerogatives that much better. 51 Thus Madison...

...agreed that "the states who are parties" to the Constitution "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 did not call for outright nullification. Instead, his draft adopted the fallback position of Jefferson's...

...Resolutions of 1 798, which declared that the Constitution was a compact of states and that those states had the right "to interpose, for arresting the progress...authorities, rights and liberties appertaining to them." Such Virginians, holding tight to the notion that the Union was a confederation of states, not people,...

...delegated, they have the right, in the last resort, to use the language of the Virginia Resolutions, "to interpose for arresting the progress of the evil,...authorities, rights, and liberties appertaining to them. " This right of interposition, thus solemnly asserted by the State of Virginia, be it called what it...

...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." But what such "interposition" might mean in practice was unclear. The resolutions merely requested...

...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.' "It appears to your committee to be a plain principle, founded in common sense, illustrated by common...

...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.49 Like Jefferson, Madison attacked specific violations of amendments to the Constitution, together...

...and essential rights of the States, the parties to it, these States have the sole right to interfere for arresting the progress of the evil and for maintaining within their respective limits the rights and liberties appertaining to them. The interposition of a State in its sovereign character,...

...of other powers, not granted by the said compact, the states. . .have the right, and are duty bound, to interpose, for arresting the progress of the evil, and for maintaining... the authorities, rights, and liberties, pertaining to them." The quotation above appears in (A) The...