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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... compact ; as no further valid than they are authorized by the grants enumerated in that compact ; and that in case of a deliberate , palpable , and dangerous exercise of other powers not granted by the said compact , the States , who ...
... compact , but citizens only . The Constitution secured rights to citizens , and declared that they should not be deprived of them , but by trial by jury . But , aliens not being a party to the compact , were not bound by it to the ...
... compact to the general government , over alien friends , was in the ninth section of the first article , it must follow that this was one of the rights reserved to the states . The gentleman last up , he said , had contended however ...
... compact with another state , or with a foreign power , or engage in war , & c . " This proved that all power with respect to foreign connexions was taken from the states . It was not among their reserved rights ; nor could they exercise ...
... compact ? Were they not the people and the states ? If it had been formed exclusively by the people , he supposed a majority of the people would have been sufficient to have confirmed the compact . But what was the fact ? Did not the ...