There does not seem to have been any distinction between those laws that offended individual rights (like the Alien and Sedition Acts) and those that offended federalism-a modem distinction that makes most sense when the scope of rights is not held to be identical with the limits on the grant of power.

DEFINE: Clarifies the historical distinction between individual rights and federalism limits — a modern conceptual separation not applied in the founding era.

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