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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... authority in the hands of the Federal Government , there being no subject , legislative , executive , or judicial , which the common law did not embrace ; and it was anxiously urged that the effect would be an annihilation of state ...
... authority , or to impede the operation of any law of the United States , or to intimidate or prevent any person hold- ing a place or office in or under the government of the United States , from undertaking , performing , or executing ...
... authorities , rights , and liberties appertaining to them . 4. That the General Assembly doth also express its deep regret that a spirit has in sundry instances been manifested by the Federal Government , to enlarge its powers by forced ...
... authorities , rights , and liberties reserved to the States respectively , or to the people . 8. That the Governor be desired to transmit a copy of the foregoing resolutions to the executive authority of each of the other States , with ...
... authority of kings was not of divine original ( a thing in those days deemed necessary to be proved ) . He wished a necessity might never appear for a new edition of this book . For this he was prosecuted and tried , condemned and ...