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Quotation from The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions by James Madison and Thomas Jefferson
“That a nullification, by those sovereignties, of all unauthorized acts done under color of that instrument, is the rightful remedy”
The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions, Kentucky Resolution of 1799 (Elliot's Debates, vol. 4 (1836), via Wikisource)
Kentucky's reply to the other states, the first of the resolutions to use the word nullification.
Citation: "That a nullification, by those sovereignties, of all unauthorized acts done under color of that instrument, is the rightful remedy" — James Madison and Thomas Jefferson, The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions, Kentucky Resolution of 1799 (Elliot's Debates, vol. 4 (1836), via Wikisource). (id virginia-and-kentucky-resolutions-q7)
Portrait: Rembrandt Peale - Thomas Jefferson, Rembrandt Peale, Public domain.
