Vandalia Whig and Illinois intelligencer. [volume] (Vandalia, Ill.) 1832-183?, 1833-05-22
KENTUCKY RESOLUTIONS OF ITO
AND 1893.

THE ORIGINAL DRAUGHT PREPARED BY HoMAS
JEFFERSON
The following Resolutions passed the House
of Representatives. of Kentucky, Nov. 10th
1898. On the passage of the first Resolu-
ton, one dlssentient; ID, Sd, 18th, 9th, 9Th,
It'll, and Sth, two dissentienis; 9th, three
dissentients.
l. Resolred, That the several States COM
posing the United States of America, are not
united on the principle of unlimited submission
to their general government; but that by com
pact under the style and title of Constitution
of he United States, and amendments there
to, they constituted general government for
special purposes, delegated to that Government
certain definite powers, reserving each State
to itself, the resduary mass of right to their
own selt-government; and that whatsoever the
general government assumes undelegated pow
ers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and OF
no force; that to this compact each State &C
ceded as State, and is an integral party; that
this Government, created by this compact, was
not made the exclusive or final judge of the
extent of the powers delegated to itself; since
that would have made its discretion, and not
the Constitution the measure of ITS powers !;
but, that as in all other cases of compact among
parties having no common Judge, each party
has equal right to Judge for itself, as well of
infractions, as of the mode and measure of re-
dress.
III. Resolred, That the Constitution of the
United States having delegated to Congress a
power TO punish treason, counterfeiting the Sc
curities and current coin of the United States,
pIracies and felonies committed on the high
seas, and offences against the laws of nations,
and no other crimes whatever, and it being
true, as a general principle, and one of the
amendments to the Constitution having also
declared "that the powers not delegated,to the
United States by the Constitution, nor prohi-
bited by it to the States, are reserved to the
States respectively, or the people," therefore,
also, the same act Of Congress, passed on the
l5th day of July, 1913, and entitled can act
in addition to the act entitled an act for the
punishment of certain crimes against the Uni
ted States," as also, the act passed by them on
the 9th day of June, 1898, entitled can act
to punish frauds committed on the Bank of the
United States" land all other their acts which
assume to create, define, or punish crimes other
than those enumerated in the Constitution are
altogether roid and of no force, and that the
power to create, define, and punish such other
crimes is reserved, and of right appertains
solely and exclusively to the respective States,
each within its own territory.
Ill. Resolved. That it is true as general
principle, and is also expressly declared by one
Of the amendments to the Constitution, that
''the powers not delegated to the United States
by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the
States, are reserved to the States respectively,
or the people; and, that no power over the
freedom of religion, freedom of speech, or free
dom of the press being delegated to the United
States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by II
to the States, as lawful powers respecting the
same did of right remain, and were reserved tc
the States or to the people; that thus was ma
infested their determination to retain to them
selves the right of judging how far the licenti-
BUSINESS of speech and of the press may be
abridged without lessening their useful free