False. Pretty much the opposite. The were authored by Jefferson, who was stridently pro-state, not pro federal. While these Resolutions were specifically addressing opposition to the Sedition and Alien Acts passed by the congress, it gives a very clear view into Jefferson point of view on how the constitution was to be deciphered.
“the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, not prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people,” therefore the act of Congress, passed on the 14th day of July, 1798, and intituled “An Act in addition to the act intituled An Act for the punishment of certain crimes against the United States,” as also the act passed by them on the — day of June, 1798, intituled “An Act to punish frauds committed on the bank of the United States,” (and all their other acts which assume to create, define, or punish crimes, other than those so enumerated in the Constitution,) are altogether void, and of no force
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False. Pretty much the opposite. The were authored by Jefferson, who was stridently pro-state, not pro federal. While these Resolutions were specifically addressing opposition to the Sedition and Alien Acts passed by the congress, it gives a very clear view into Jefferson point of view on how the constitution was to be deciphered.
“the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, not prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people,” therefore the act of Congress, passed on the 14th day of July, 1798, and intituled “An Act in addition to the act intituled An Act for the punishment of certain crimes against the United States,” as also the act passed by them on the — day of June, 1798, intituled “An Act to punish frauds committed on the bank of the United States,” (and all their other acts which assume to create, define, or punish crimes, other than those so enumerated in the Constitution,) are altogether void, and of no force