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Group Tasks
Spirit 195196• Explain the purpose of the Alien & Sedition Acts. How does Pickering support them?
Spirit 196197• Explain the Virginia Resolution's stance of the Alien & Sedition Acts. How is party politics evident in the support for this resolution?
Spirit 197198• Explain Rhode Island's argument against supporting the Virginia Resolution. How do they use the language of the Constitution to support their position?
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"That a nullification, by those sovereignties [states], of all unauthorized acts done under the color of that instrument [the Constitution] is the rightful remedy: That this commonwealth does, under the most deliberate reconsideration, declare, that the said Alien and Sedition Laws, are in their opinion, palpable violations of the said Constitution. . ." Kentucky Resolution