Text Analysis

Kentucky resolution-Alien and Sedition Acts
Resolutions in General Assembly

Who is writing?
The writers are the representatives of the commonwealth good people.

Who is the audience?
The audience is for the congress and for the government.

Who do the writers represent?
The writers represent their opinions and reactions towards the unconstitutional laws of congress. They speak out for the good people.

What is being said, argued, and/or requested?
The representatives of the common good people are not satisfied with the unconstitutional laws of Congress and will protest.

How is it being said, argued, and/or requested?
“To again enter the field of argument, and attempt more fully or forcibly to expose the unconstitutionality of those obnoxious laws, would, it is apprehended be as unnecessary as unavailing.”
“Together with our reasons for those opinions, were detailed with decency and with temper, and submitted to the discussion and judgment of our fellow citizens throughout the Union”
“ And finally, in order that no pretexts or arguments may be drawn from a supposed acquiescence on the part of this commonwealth in the constitutionality of those laws, and be thereby used as precedents for similar future violations of federal compact; this commonwealth does now enter against them, its solemn protest”

What proof and/or justification is being used to legitimize the request?
To show that this document is legitimized, at the bottom of this document, it is stamped approved on December 3rd, 1799.