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The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, along with the supporting Report of 1800 by Madison, became final documents of Jefferson's Democratic-Republican Party.

Gutzman shows that Governor Edmund Randolph designed the protest in the name of moderation.

Gutzman argues that in 1798, Madison was caught up in partisanship and espoused states ' rights to defeat national legislation he maintained was a threat to republicanism.

During 1831-33, the South Carolina Nullifiers quoted Madison in their defense of states ' rights.

But Madison feared that the growing support for this doctrine would undermine the union and argued that by ratifying the Constitution states had transferred their sovereignty to the federal government.