When Congress passed laws (in 1798 ) to punish newspaper editors who published stories critical of the federal government, these two political leaders suggested in the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions that the states had the right to nullify a federal law that, in the state's opinion, violated the Constitution
A) ?James Madison and Thomas Jefferson
B) ?John Adams and Alexander Hamilton
C) ?John Dickinson and George Clinton
D) ?Samuel Adams and John Hancock
E) ?John Jay and John Marshall
A
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__________ is the proclaimed right of a state to declare a federal law void
a. Legislative veto b. Nullification c. Referendum d. Reformation
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________ is an economic system in which the individuals and firms, rather than the government, have rights to make all decisions about buying and selling private property such as land, stock, commodities, or productive industries
A. Command economy B. Public ownership C. Free market D. Planned economy E. Interventionist state
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