KY/VA Resolutions Analysis
I think the KY/VA Resolutions reflected on older set of ideas verses a new constitutional development. The reason I say this is because The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions were primarily protests against the limitations on civil liberties contained in the Alien and Sedition Acts, rather than expressions of full-blown constitutional theory. The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions where acts written by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison respectively in response to the federal passage of Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798. The KY/VA resolutions argued that because the federal government was the outcome of a compact between the states, all powers not specifically granted to the central authority were retained by the individual states or by the people.