<P> The Virginia Resolution of 1798 also relied on the compact theory and asserted that the states have the right to determine whether actions of the federal government exceed constitutional limits . The Virginia Resolution introduced the idea that the states may "interpose" when the federal government acts unconstitutionally, in their opinion: </P> <P> That this Assembly doth explicitly and peremptorily declare, that it views the powers of the federal government as resulting from the compact to which the states are parties, as limited by the plain sense and intention of the instrument constituting that compact, as no further valid than they are authorized by the grants enumerated in that compact; and that, in case of a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous exercise of other powers, not granted by the said compact, the states, who are parties thereto, have the right, and are in duty bound, to interpose, for arresting the progress of the evil, and for maintaining, within their respective limits, the authorities, rights and liberties, appertaining to them . </P> <P> There were two sets of Kentucky Resolutions . The Kentucky state legislature passed the first resolution on November 16, 1798 and the second on December 3, 1799 . Jefferson wrote the 1798 Resolutions . The author of the 1799 Resolutions is not known with certainty . </P> <P> James Madison wrote the Virginia Resolution . The Virginia state legislature passed it on December 24, 1798 . </P>

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