The 1798 Resolutions later underpinned nullification, secession, and proslavery arguments.

Evidence

The Kentucky legislature adopted Jefferson’s draft in November 1798; Madison’s was endorsed by the Virginia General Assembly on Christmas Eve.”° These are the famous resolutions that were used, perhaps unscrupulously, in the defense of slavery and as a basis for the doctrines of nullification and secession. — Philip Chase Bobbitt, Reflections Inspired by My Critics, 196

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the antebellum constitutional crisis and states’-rights historiography.