"Resolved, that the several States composing the United States of America, are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government; but that, by compact... they constituted a general government for special purposes... and that whensoever the general government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force." — Kentucky Resolutions, drafted by Thomas Jefferson, November 1798
The compact theory voiced in this resolution most directly anticipated which later constitutional argument?
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John C. Calhoun's doctrine of nullification during the 1832-33 tariff crisis
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Daniel Webster's defense of perpetual union in the 1830 Senate debates
- C
Andrew Jackson's veto of the Bank recharter in 1832
- D
Henry Clay's American System of internal improvements
Explanation
Calhoun built on Jefferson's compact theory to argue that South Carolina could nullify the 1828 and 1832 tariffs. Webster opposed compact theory, while Jackson's Bank veto and Clay's American System addressed economic policy rather than the nature of the union.