For class I read George Washington's Farewell Address, and the Virginia & Kentucky Resolutions. They are both documents written in the early years of the United States with similar viewpoints. In the Kentucky and Virgina Resolutions they resolved some issues brought up in the Constitution in their own way. George Washington's Farewell Address in some ways summed up what he had thought as his policy as president. He believed that the only way we should be involved in foreign affairs was to be helpful, and to provide for the betterment of both countries.
            In the Virgina and Kentucky Resolutions it states "that alien friends are under the jurisdiction and protection of the laws of the state wherein they are: that no power over theta has been delegated to the United States, nor prohibited to the individual States, distinct from their power over citizens." This goes along with what George Washington said in his farewell Address when he said " "they have been witnesses to the formation of two treaties, that with Great Britain, and that with Spain, which to secure to them everything they could desire, in respect to our foreign relations, towards confirming their prosperity." These two eloquently written statements go together because they both talk about the fact that the United States should be fair to the countries they hold treaty with. In one it discusses that the people both visiting and living in the United States from other countries should have the same rights as the citizens of those States. In the other it talks about keeping the allies of the United States happy, and  prosperous. I think that George Washington would have liked this aspect of the Virgina and Kentucky Resolutions. It was almost exactly what he stood for during his time in office.
          Much of what we have been studying in class for the past few weeks has to do with making resolutions in order to make agreements. This was very important to the beginning of our nation. They needed to make agreements in order for our country to function as one. Political debate and dissagreement is what fuels both politics then, and today. Resolutions are a part of life. Specifically Government. Without them we would still be a group of unorganized states that do not have any way of efficiently running a country.