that the legislature did not recognize as constitutional the right of an individual state to nullify or arrest a law passed by Congress, but this was rejected by a large majority.
The fourth resolution asserted that the general
government was not one of unlimited powers to
which the states must submit, but one of special
powers delegated by the states; that all other powers were reserved to the states, and that any exercise of undelegated powers was unconstitutional;
that the general government was not judge of its
powers, but that "each party" to the compact had
an equal right to judge for itself "as well of infractions as of the mode and measure of redress."
This was carried by a vote of 93 to 31. The fifth
resolution declared that the general government
had shown a tendency to expand some of its
powers to a degree destructive of the republican
system and creative of an unlimited and absolute government; and this was carried by a vote
of 103 to 9. The sixth asserted that the tariff
acts were violations of the compact, and that
a state, whenever other hope of redress was
gone, might properly "interpose in its sovereign capacity, for the purpose of arresting
the progress of the evil occasioned by the said
