Claim: John Taylor Caroline was a Virginia Senator and had a large role in the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, which argued that states had the right and duty to declare unconstitutional those acts of Congress that the Constitution did not authorize; and he believed that executives can corrupt the legislature.
Evidence: Stromberg says that Taylor's role in calling for Virginia's secession in 1798 and his role in the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions "show how seriously he took the reserved rights [interposition (nullification) and secession] of these primary political communities [the States]." The resolutions argued that the states had the right and the duty to declare unconstitutional those acts of Congress that the Constitution did not authorize. Taylor's solution to the effects of factionalism was to "remove the base from under the stock jobbers, the banks, the paper money party, the tariff-supported manufacturers, and so on; destroy the system of patronage by which the executive has corrupted the legislature; bring down the usurped authority of the Supreme Court."