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1. What is the main argument in the excerpt from the Virginia Resolution?
2. Why does The Kentucky Resolution say that the Alien and Sedition Acts are “nothing short of despotism”?
3. The Kentucky Resolution says that to accept the Alien and Sedition Acts would be “highly criminal.” Why?

That this Assembly doth explicitly and peremptorily declare, that it views the powers of the federal government, as resulting from the compact, to which the states are parties; as limited by the plain sense and intention of the instrument constituting the compact; as no further valid that they are authorized by the grants enumerated in that compact; and that in case of a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous exercise of other powers, not 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, and for maintaining within their respective limits, the authorities, rights and l

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MsEleanor

1. The main point of the excerpt is that the states are in a contract with the federal government and can cancel or ignore measures used that are in violation of that contract. Essentially the states are allowed to ignore laws, like the Alien and Sedition Acts, when the states believe they violate their rights.

2. Because the Alien and Sedition Acts put a watch on anyone new to the country under the Alien Act and the Sedition Act allowed the government to arrest people if they spoke against the government. These acts allowed the government to violate rights granted under the Constitution.

3. Because accepting the acts would be a violation of the highest laws of the land. It would be the governments willingly violating the rights of the people and allowing the federal government to have power larger than granted to them under the Constitution.

anthougo

1. The main argument of the Virginia Resolution is that the federal government lacked the powers to pass unconstitutional laws.

 

2. The Kentucky Resolution described "The Alien and Sedition Acts" as acts of despotism to show the state's disapproval of the obnoxious laws that wanted to abridge the rights of American citizens to criticize the government, form their personal opinions, or organize groups with differing political ideologies.  

 

3. The Kentucky Resolution declared "The Alien and Sedition Acts" to be "highly criminal" because the laws were considered unconstitutional.

 

Thus, both the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions addressed the excessive injustice imposed by the federal government on states and citizens because of biased ideologies, especially McCarthyism.

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