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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... constitutionality of the Sedition Act , amongst other argu- ments , insisted that the offence denounced by it was an offence at coimon law , and was therefore punishable in the courts of the United States , in- dependently of 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 prerogatives of ...
... constitutionality of the laws , by rea- son of their having passed both Houses of Congress . Mr. Nicholas hoped that ... unconstitutional , and not law . These laws , DEBATE ON VIRGINIA RESOLUTIONS . 29.
... constitutionality , and that such an attempt as they were then making to induce Congress to repeal the laws , would be utterly nugatory . Ma . Ruffin arose next , and said that he was convinced his abilities would not enable him to ...
... law , ( except , indeed , where the Constitution interposes . ) they must be incompetent to the passage of a temporary one . But the gentle- man , he said , had attempted to prove the constitutionality of that act , by saying that ...