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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... Consequences of disobedience . Imprisonment , on conviction , not exceeding three years , and per- petual disability to become a citizen . Section II . Confers on the President power to remove aliens . 1. What aliens . Such as are above ...
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... consequence of such a measure ? Universal ignorance amongst the people . He then asked , if ignorance was a desirable thing ? - And were the free exercise of the faculties of the human mind , to be once restrained and shut up , he would ...
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