4h5t the words 4-not law, but utterly null, void and of no cifrct,p wiilich ii,ad followed, in one Of the Revolutions, the word Unconstitutional" were struck out by common consent. Though the words were in fact but synonymous with sunconstitutional,' yet to guard against a misunderstanding of this phrase as more than declaratory of opinion, the sscsd .ii,,ie .a5

 tained, ns not liahle to that danger.

 The published address of the Lcgis- lature to thc people, their constituents, aifords another conclusive evidence ol its views. The Address warns them a~ ff,,;;sii,st f,;;sii,st the cncroaciling spirit of the General Government, argues the uncon- slitutioaaIty of the Alien and Sedltlon Acts, points to other instancesin which the constitutional limits had been over leapcd; dwells upon the dangerous mode af aesisf;;ag fewe. by implication, i aid ii in general presses the enecessity of watch ing over the consolidating tendency of the Federal policy. But nothing is said that can be understood to look to means of maintaining the rights of the States, beyond the regular ones, within the forms of the Constitution.

 If any farther lights on the subject could he needed, a very strong one is reflected in the answers of the Resolu tions, by the States which protested d. gainst them. The main objection of svhese, beyond q few general complaints of the inHammatory tendency of the Re solutions, was directed against the as sumed authority of a State Legislature. to declare q law of the United States to beunconstitutional, which they pronoun- ced an unwarrantable interference with the exclusive jurisdiction of the Stu premc Court of the United States Had the resolutions been regarded as asowing and maintaining right, in ar individual state, toarrest, by force, the cxccutionofthe law of the United States itmust be presumed that it would have been a conspicuous object of their de nunciation. With cordial salutations,

 JAMES MADISON.