Thomas Jefferson doesn’t have much in common with Tim Walz.

But in his more radical moments, the Sage of Monticello might have appreciated the spirit of the Minnesota governor’s campaign to resist federal immigration enforcement. 

In 1798, Jefferson authored a first draft of the Kentucky Resolutions, outlining a purported right of states to nullify overreach by the federal government. 

The Kentucky Resolutions — and a related effort in Virginia — were a response to the Alien and Sedition Acts, passed by the Federalists in Congress and considered repressive and unconstitutional by Jefferson and his partisan compatriots. 

Jefferson urged the states to declare “these acts void, and of no force.”

They should see that “neither these acts, nor any others of the General Government not plainly and intentionally authorized by the Constitution, shall be exercised within their respective territories.”

The former secretary of state and future president posited that “every state has a natural right … to nullify of their own authority all assumptions of power by........

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