In the Kentucky Resolutions of 1798, Thomas Jefferson wrote:

"The several states composing the United States of America are NOT united on the principle of UNLIMITED SUBMISSION to their general government" (feds)

and

"where powers are assumed [by the federal government] which have NOT BEEN DELEGATED, a nullification of the act is the rightful remedy:
that every State has a natural right in cases not within the compact, to nullify of their own authority all assumptions of power by others [feds] within their limits: that without this right, they would be under the dominion, absolute and unlimited, of whosoever might exercise this right of judgment for them"