Alien Acts create harsh citizenship laws & allow deportation and detention of aliens. Sedition Act forbids “false, scandalous, salacious” statements against the government.

The above actions of Congress led to the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions which presented the idea that:

A. States must abide by federal law because of the Supremacy Clause

B. States could declare federal laws null if they were unconstitutional

C. States should secede from the United States because it was becoming too powerful

D. States should create their own Bill of Rights to protect their citizens