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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... clause of the Constitution by which those rights are secured , which Constitution literally reached aliens , by using in all places the term " per- sons , " not " natives . " He then put the case of our population being in- creased by a ...
... clause was understood at the time of adoption ? Could it then have been contemplated by any one , that such a law as this would ever have been passed ? The adoption of the Constitution by this state was accompanied by a condition ...
... clause in it upon that subject , being the first clause of the ninth section of the first article , which he read , in these words : " The migration or importation of such persons as any of the states now exist- ing shall think proper ...
... clause , then , he said , the power of Congress to pass the law in question , was clearly sanctioned by necessary implication . All cases arising under the Consti- tution , could not be foreseen and enumerated : therefore , that clause ...
... clause declaring that the United States would guarantee to the several states a republican form of government , and protect each of them against invasion . He relied much upon the term protect used in that clause . Protection , he said ...