Which states passed legislation to protest the alien and sedition acts? virginia and kentucky kentucky and missouri virginia and new jersey kentucky and new jersey

The correct answer is:

Virginia and Kentucky.

Explanation:

Virginia and Kentucky passed resolutions as a protest against the Alien and Sedition Acts approved by President John Adams. Both resolutions declared that the Alien and Sedition Acts were unconstitutional and gave the federal government more power than it was stated in the Constitution, therefor the states had the power to declare those acts null. The Virginia and Kentucky resolutions were written anonymously, but later it was known that Thomas Jefferson wrote the Kentucky resolution even though he was Vice President of John Adams, and James Madison wrote the Virginia Resolution.

A. Virginia and Kentucky.

1. international: struggle for hegemony and empire outstrips the fiscal resources of the state

2. political conflict: conflict between the monarchy and the nobility over the “reform” of the tax system led to paralysis and bankruptcy.

3. the enlightenment: impulse for reform intensifies political conflicts; reinforces traditional aristocratic constitutionalism, one variant of which was laid out in montequieu’s spirit of the laws; introduces new notions of good government, the most radical being popular sovereignty, as in rousseau’s social contract [1762]; the attack on the regime and privileged class by the literary underground of “grub street; ” the broadening influence of public opinion.

4. social antagonisms between two rising groups: the aristocracy and the bourgeoisie

5. ineffective ruler: louis xvi

6. economic hardship, especially the agrarian crisis of 1788-89 generates popular discontent and disorders caused by food shortages.

c) many feel that their votes do not count eliminate