Thomas E. Woods, Jr., provides an eloquent defense of the politically divisive subject of nullification, a remedy used by states against unconstitutional federal power grabs.

Thomas Jefferson touched on throughout; pp. 169-81 focus on his role and Madison's in drawing up the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, which offered the most forceful statement of the constitutional objections to the acts.

Here, writer Charles Slack tells the story of the 1798Sedition Act, the crucial moment when high ideals met real-world politics and the country's future hung in the balance.