With the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions, the stance of states having the ability to nullify federal laws was coming to conception. The Missouri Compromise of 1820 was the pinnacle of Jefferson’s doubt for the future prosperity of the Union, with the federal government determining that Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state, while Jefferson strongly believes that the states should determine whether it should be a free or slave
With the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions, the stance of states having the ability to nullify federal laws was coming to conception. The Missouri Compromise of 1820 was the pinnacle of Jefferson’s doubt for the future prosperity of the Union, with the federal government determining that Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state, while Jefferson strongly believes that the states should determine whether it should be a free or slave