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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... consider those laws as merely an experiment on the American mind , to see how it will bear an avowed violation of the Constitution . If this goes down , we shall immediately see attempted another act of Congress , de- claring that the ...
... consider the constitutionality of the laws referred to in the resolutions , and their cor- respondence with human rights , natural and civil . He compared the ex ecutive of Great Britain with , the Congress of the United States . The ...
... consider well the subject before them . He said , it was an important one , as the object of inquiry seemed to be , to impeach with unconstitutionality , two laws passed by both Houses of Congress , and by them declared to be ...
... effect in the community . It was scarcely possible to consider the measures of our own government , and candidly to examine their influence upon the public happiness , without being 40 DEBATE ON VIRGINIA RESOLUTIONS .
... consider the latter . To preserve the Constitution , was to preserve the union ' ; and to maintain that , upon the principles upon which it was origi- nally formed , was to bid defiance to every foreign power , whose conduct might be ...