Question

The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions were passed in order to

(A) promote an excise tax on whiskey

(B) nullify the power of the federal government

(C) support the Alien and Sedition Acts

(D) call for the absorption of the state debts by the federal government

(E) affi rm the power of the federal government

Answer 1

The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions were passed in order to "(B) nullify the power of the federal government," since they stated that the Alien and Sedition Acts were unConstitutional.