John Adams Document 1 "RESOLVED, That the General Assembly of Virginie... doth particularly protest against...the two
late cases of the Allen and Sedition Aets passed at the last session of Congress, the first of
which exercises a power ne where delegated to the federal government..."
Virginia Resolution, 1798
"THE representatives of the good people of this commonwealth in general assembly convened,
having maturely considered the answers of sundry (various) states ...respecting certain
unconstitutional laws of Congress, commonly called the Alien and Sedition laws ... expose the
unconstitutionality of those obnoxious laws..."
Kentucky Resolution 1799
Foreign or Domestic Policy? (Cirele one)
Using the documents above, what is the main point that both resolutions are making about
obeying the Federal law of the Allen and Sedition Acts?