VIRGINIA RESOLUTIONS OF 17a8.
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lN THE VIRGINIA HoUsE OF DELEGATES.

 DEeGMBER 2l, 179S. RcSolred, That the General Assembly ol Virginia doth unequiyocally express a firm resolution to maintain and defend the Con- stitution of the United States, and the Con- stisution of this state, against every aggress- ion either foreign or domestic and that they will support the Government of the United States in all measures warranted by the for mer.

 That the Assembly most solemlv declares warm attachment to the Union of the States, to maintain which, 1t pledges its powers and that, for this end, 1t is their duty to watch over an oppose erery iafraction Of tFoSe prja- cjpies ictich constitute Ae only basis Of Hat Uaion-because a faithful observance of them can alone secure it's existence and the public happiness

 That this Assembly doth explicitly and peremptorily declare, that it views the pow CTS of the Federal Government as resulting from the compact 10 which the States are parties. as limited by the plain sense and in- tention of the instrument constituting that compact, as no farther valid than they are authorized by the grants enumerated in that compact; and that in case of deliberate. Paipaoie, and dangerous exercise of other powers not granted by the said compact, the states who are parties thereto have the right, and are in duty bound, to interpose, Tor arresting the progress of the evil, and for