John Adams was the one who passed the Alien and Sedition Acts which punishes those who opposed the federal policies. However, Thomas Jefferson felt that these acts defy both the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. So he proposed the Nullification doctrine which states that if the federal government passed an unconstitutional law, the states are not required to follow it.
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Terms in this set (44) What is the difference between New and Old immigrants? Old immigrants came to the U.S. and were generally wealthy, educated, skilled, and were from southern and eastern Europe. New immigrants were generally poor, unskilled, and came from Northern and Western Europe.
According to the Articles of Confederation, nine out of thirteen states must agree on a bill in order for it to become a law. In order to change the actual Articles of Confederation, all thirteen states must agree on the change. This shows one of the many flaws of the Articles of Confederation. Getting a significant amount of states to agree on a new law or all states to agree on changing the Articles of Confederation is extremely difficult. This made the federal government weak.
