Social Studies

Lili

26 December, 16:52

That the General Assembly ... [protests] ... the ... alarming infractions of the Constitution, in the two late cases of the "Alien and Sedition Acts" ... the first of which exercises a power nowhere delegated to the federal government, and ... [overturns] the general principles of free government; [and the second] of which ... exercises ... a power not delegated by the Constitution ... a power which, more than any other, ought to produce universal alarm, because it is levelled against the right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon, which has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right.

-The Virginia Resolutions of 1798

Which of these rights is the text accusing the acts of violating?

A. Freedom of religion and of assembly

B. Free speech and freedom of the press

C. The right to bear arms and trial by jury