KENTUCKY RESOLUTIONS, THE

—Pa ed by the Kentucky Legislature, in 1798 and 1799. They were against seditious and alien laws, and emphasized the rights of the states. George Nicholas introduced the Resolutions, of which Jefferson was the author. They were pa ed by the Lower House, on November 10, and by the Senate on November 13, 1798. The Resolutions defined a strict construction of relative power of state and government, a erting that when the Government a umed undelegated powers its acts were unauthoritive and void, and that ‘to this compact (the Constitution) each state acceded as a@ state, and is an integral party, its costate forming as to itself the other party: that the government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the power delegated to itself, but that in all cases| of compact among parties forming no common judge. Each party has an equal right to judge for itself as well of infractions as of the mode and manner of redre .’ Copies of the Resolutions were sent to all states, but only seven replied and in condemnatory terms. In November, 1799, the Kentucky legislature reaffirmed the Resolutions. See War field Kentucky Resolutions of 1798.