Question

The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions:

• A. Dealt with the issue of surveying western lands and determining boundaries.
• B. Mandated that the Federal Government could not interfere with states' efforts to recapture runaway slaves.
• C. Were the first organized effort by states to eliminate the Electoral College.
• D. Introduced the idea of nullification of a federal law by states that were opposed to that law.
• E. Attempted to get a constitutional amendment which eliminated the Three-Fifths Compromise to get slave states more representation.

Answer 1

The correct option is A Dealt with the issue of surveying western lands and determining boundaries.

The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions (or Resolves) were political statements drafted in 1798 and 1799, in which the Kentucky and Virginia legislatures took the position that the federal Alien and Sedition Acts were unconstitutional.