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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... committee , at the head of which was Mr. Madison , that dignified and lucid report vindica- tory of the resolutions of the previous year , ever since known in Virginia , as " Madison's Report , " and out of it , as " the Virginia Report ...
... committee of the whole House , on the state of the commonwealth , Mr. Brackenridge in the chair ; when the reso- lutions presented to the House by Mr. John Taylor , and referred to the com- mittee , being taken up for its consideration ...
... committee rose accordingly , reported progress , and had leave to sit again , IN THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES , Friday , December 14 , 1798 . The House resolved itself into a committee of the whole House , on the state of the Commonwealth ...
... committee to what had been the determination of the legislatures of the other states . All which had taken these laws under their consideration , had given them their decided approbation , either by way of resolution , or address to the ...
... committee to the last clause of the law , from which it appeared that the offender might be tried by a jury for the offence in this state , but was deprived of such a trial by the fourth section , where he was delivered up to a foreign ...