"resolved that the several states composing the us. of america are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government; but that, by a compact under the style and title of a constitution for the us they constituted a general government for special purposes, delegated to that government certain definite powers, reserving, each state to itself, the residuary mass of right to their own self-government; and that whensoever the general government assumes undelegated powers, it’s acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force." - jefferson's draft (before 4 october, 1798) kentucky resolution this excerpt of jefferson's kentucky resolution introduces the theory of a) federalism. b) interposition. c) implied powers d) nullification.