...November 16, 1798, and November 22, 1799. Both forms were, in essence, drafted by Jefferson: "Resolved, That the several States composing the United States...to their general government; but that, by a compact . . . they constituted a general government for special purposes, delegated to that government certain...

...KENTUCKY LEGISLATURE . . . The I Kentucky I House . . . moved the following RESOLUTIONS . . . I. Resolved, That the several states composing the United States...of unlimited submission to their general government . . . that whensoever the general government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative,...

...course. His resolution, as ultimately adopted by the Kentucky legislature, opened with the premise THAT THE SEVERAL STATES COMPOSING the United States...submission to their general government; but that, by compact, under the style and title of a Constitution for the United States . . . they constituted a...

...to judge for itself, as well of infractions as of the mode and measure of redress.63 That the states are not united "on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government" is true because no citizen of any state, any more than of the United States, is united with any other...

...Resolutions was their acceptance of the Union as a compact of the states. Jefferson asserted that "by compact under the style and title of a Constitution for the United States," the "Madison Papers, 17:189; Commager, Documents, 18o. "James Morton Smith, "The Grass Roots Origins...

...Jeifcrson, and containing his opinions, is as follows. " Resolved, that the several states comprising the United states of America, are not united on the...submission to their general Government, but that by compact under the style and title of a Conptitution for the Uuited blates, and ot the amendments thereto,...

...repeated these arguments. The Kentucky Resolutions of 1798, for example, declared that the states were not "united on the principle of unlimited submission to their General Government." They were therefore determined "to retain to themselves the right of judging how far the licentiousness...

...doctrine when he wrote his Kentucky Resolution of 1798, in protest to the Alien and Sedition laws: The several states composing the United States of...submission to their general government; but that, by compact, under the style and title of the Constitution of the United States, and of '"Abraham Lincoln,...

...and Madisonian modes of constitutional redress. Jefferson's premise was that the union amounted to "a compact under the style and title of a Constitution for the United States . . . that to this compact each State acceded as a State," and that, "as in all other cases of compact...

...of America, are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to the general government; Tbut that, by a compact under the style and title of a constitution of the United States, and of amendments thereto, they constituted a general government for special...