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.

Pays off: "Republicans favored strict textual constitutional interpretation to limit federal power"

Philip Chase Bobbitt, Philip Chase Bobbitt - Refl…, loc. 196