Text Analysis: Kentucky Resolution

Araina Rowe
11/30/08
Text Analysis
Kentucky Resolution

1. The writer of this document is the general assembly.

2. The audience could be the people of the states in the United States, and it could also be he original writers of the alien and sedition acts.


3. The writers represent “fellow citizens throughout the Union,” who discussed the issue.

4. This document takes about this group of people who don’t like the alien and sedition acts, because they are “unconstitutional laws of Congress”, to them, so they want to change them. They believe, “that the several states who formed that instrument, being sovereign and independent, have the unquestionable right to judge of its infraction” This means that they don’t want all the power to go to the central government, they want to individual states to have power.


5. This document has a serious tone, because of the topic it is addressing. It is obviously informing the reader and maybe trying to persuade because of the disagreement in the alien and sedition acts it expresses.

6. This document is a primary document because the General Assembly of Kentucky wrote, which justifies why it is legitimate.