When, at the time of the Nullification Crisis, he was presented with the Kentucky resolutions of 1799, he argued that the resolutions themselves were not Jefferson's words, and that Jefferson meant this not as a constitutional but as a revolutionary right.
無効化の危機の時に、1799年ケンタッキー州決議を渡されると、マディソンはこの決議自体がジェファーソンの言葉ではないし、ジェファーソンはこれを合憲ではなく革命的権利だと意図したと主張した。