History of the United States I / Unit 8 USH1 1086 short lesson, about 20 seconds
A Doctrine Stated and Ignored
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The idea
No other state joined Virginia and Kentucky, and the witness records the Resolutions as at the time gestures of defiance.
In practice
A constitutional theory published, circulated and then left unused for thirty years.
Where people slip
They would have important effects in later decades. The argument is picked up in Unit 10's nullification crisis, where a state acts on it.
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