Use the excerpt to answer the question that follows. Resolved. That the several states composing the United States of America are not united on
the principle of unlimited submission to their general government; but that, by compact,
under the style and title of a Constitution for the United States, and of amendments thereto,
they constituted a general government for special purposes, delegated to that government
certain definite powers, reserving, each state to itself, the residuary mass of right to their own
self-government, and that whensoever the general government assumes undelegated powers,
its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force...
-The Kentucky Resolutions, 1798