Despite their lucid reasoning and peerless prose, Jefferson and Madison’s Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions have been given short shrift in the pantheon of American documents. Yet the Resolves of 1798, as they were also known, proclaimed essential curbs against the abuse of federal power.
The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions
Guideposts of Limited Government
By William J. Watkins, Jr.
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the Winter 1998/99 issue of The Independent Review.
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