Word: agrument
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...interposition agrument is not novel. Madison and Jefferson used it in framing the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions which condemned the Alen and Sedition Acts of 1798 as unconstitutional. It was their contention that the federal government was created by the states to serves as their agent. They reasoned that state legislatures may declare federal laws unconstitutional. From that time, though the South has recognized both the idea of the Constitution as the supreme law of the land and of the Supreme Court as the agent to preserve that law, it has refused to combine two concepts and allow the high...
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