The Kentucky resolutions challenge the authority of the federal government.
According to the resolutions, states have both the right and the obligation to deem invalid any acts of Congress that the Constitution does not authorize. The Kentucky Resolution of 1799 added that the appropriate response when the states find a statute to be unconstitutional is for the states to annul it.
The three different departments of the federal government—sometimes just referred to as Washington—are the legislative, executive, and judicial ones. According to the U.S. Constitution, these branches are respectively headed by the president, the Congress, and the federal courts.
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