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  2. Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions - Wikipedia

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    Text of the Kentucky Resolutions of 1798; Text of Virginia Resolutions of 1798. Answers from Delaware, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New York (also to Kentucky), Connecticut, New Hampshire (also to Kentucky), and Vermont. Text of the Kentucky Resolutions of 1799; James Madison, Report on the Virginia Resolutions

  3. Virginia Resolves - Wikipedia

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    The following is the original text of the Virginia Resolves as adopted by the House of Burgesses on May 29, 1765: [3]. Resolved, that the first adventurers and settlers of His Majesty's colony and dominion of Virginia brought with them and transmitted to their posterity, and all other His Majesty's subjects since inhabiting in this His Majesty's said colony, all the liberties, privileges ...

  4. Report of 1800 - Wikipedia

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    The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions had in the year since publication received highly critical replies from state legislatures. Seven states formally responded to Virginia and Kentucky by rejecting the Resolutions [4] and three other states passed resolutions expressing disapproval, [5] with the other four states taking no action. No other ...

  5. Category:Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions" ... Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.

  6. History of the United States (1789–1815) - Wikipedia

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    Jefferson and his allies launched a counterattack, with two states stating in the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions that state legislatures could nullify acts of Congress. However, all the other states rejected this proposition, and nullification —or as it was called, the "principle of 98"—became the preserve of a faction of the Republicans ...

  7. John Breckinridge (U.S. Attorney General) - Wikipedia

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    On a 1798 trip back to Virginia, an intermediary gave him Jefferson's Kentucky Resolutions, which denounced the Alien and Sedition Acts. At Jefferson's request, Breckinridge assumed credit for the modified resolutions he shepherded through the Kentucky General Assembly; Jefferson's authorship was not discovered until after Breckinridge's death ...

  8. Commonwealth (U.S. state) - Wikipedia

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    On September 28, 1786, the residents of Kentucky County began petitioning the Virginia legislature for permission to become a "free and independent state, to be known by the name of the Commonwealth of Kentucky". [13] On June 1, 1792, Kentucky County officially became a state.

  9. Principles of '98 - Wikipedia

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    The term derives from the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions written in 1798 by James Madison and Thomas Jefferson, respectively.They led a vocal segment of the Founding Fathers that believed that if the federal government, if it is the exclusive judge of its limitations under the US Constitution, would eventually overcome those limits and become more and more powerful and authoritarian.