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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... laws , but especially the last , were fatal to the party which originated them . The 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 ...
... law constituted part of the federal jurisprudence , created more alarm than the main topics of com- plaint , the Alien and Sedition Laws themselves . It was regarded as an accumulation , at one stroke , of all authority in the hands of ...
... alien and sedition laws , had overleaped its bounds . He mentioned a law , which Congress had passed at the same session , respecting alien enemies , as it had been sug gested that the one particularly called the alien law was ...
... alien friends , by the common law , had the rights of life , liberty , and property ; and that these common law rights were secured by the Constitution ; to prove which , he quoted that clause of the Constitution by which those rights ...
... law should tend to destroy that guarantee , were we to wait until the ene- my's detachments closed us in on every side ? This sedition law said yes . In the construction of this law we were placed in the hands of lawyers . The judge ...