The Virginia Report of 1799-1800, Touching the Alien and Sedition Laws: Together with the Virginia Resolutions of December 21, 1798, the Debate and Proceedings Thereon in the House of Delegates of Virginia, and Several Other Documents Illustrative of the Report and ResolutionsThe Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., 26 wrz 2018 - 264 A collection of important writings that had a profound effect on the debates that led to the Civil War. The Virginia Resolutions were written by James Madison [1751-1836] and adopted by the Virginia legislature in 1798, the Kentucky Resolutions were written by Thomas Jefferson [1743-1826] and adopted by the Kentucky legislature in 1798. Both opposed the Alien and Sedition Acts and initiated a debate about the respective powers of the federal government and states. This edition collects these three works, and adds the texts of the Alien and Sedition acts, comments from other states and relevant extracts from Madison's letters. [vii]-xvi, [17]-264 pp.
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... Alien Act alone , as being directed against com . paratively few persons , and those strangers , might not have been so ob- noxious , Cut the Sedition Law , trespassing , as it seemed to do , upon the freedom of the press , so cherished ...
... Alien and Sedition Laws , the army and navy bills , and the large sums ... Alien and Sedition Laws became more odious . The zeal of the opposite party rising ... Act , amongst other argu- ments , insisted that the offence denounced by it ...
... act consentaneously with Virginia , ( and did , in fact , act before her , ) . and they were proposed in her legislature by Mr. Breckenridge . The Virginia resolutions , ! sub- mitted and ably defended by Mr. John Taylor , of Caroline ...
... ALIEN AND SEDITION ACTS . AN ACT CONCERNING ALIENS . [ Approved June 25 , 1798. ] ABSTRACT . Section I. Confers power on the President to order aliens to depart . 1. What aliens . Such as the President shall judge dangerous to the peace ...
... Act ; and requires marshals , and other officers of the United States to exe- cute the President's orders under it . Section V. Allows alien to remove his effects . Section VI . Continues act in force for two years . Section 1. Be it ...