"Resolved that the several states composing the US. of America are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their
general government; but that, by a compact under the style and title of a Constitution for the US ...., they constituted a general government for special purposes, delegated to that government certain definite powers, reserving, each state to itself, the residuary mass of right to their own self-government; and that whensoever the General government assumes undelegated powers, it’s acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force." - Jefferson's Draft (Before 4 October, 1798) Kentucky Resolution
This excerpt of Jefferson's Kentucky Resolution introduces the theory of
A) federalism.
B) interposition.
C) implied powers
D) nullification.
Jefferson's Kentucky Resolution (drafted in 1798) introduces the theory of nullification. This means that states, individually, can judge a central government law and declare it unconstitutional if they desire to do so.
England's southern colonies in North America developed a farm economy that could not survive without slave labor. Many slaves lived on large farms called plantations. These plantations produced important crops traded by the colony, crops such as cotton and tobacco.
