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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... defence , the truth of the matter contained in the publication charged as a libel . And the jury who shall try the cause shall have a right (6 determine the law and the fact , under the direction of the court , as in other cases . Sect ...
... defence and protection ; also Mr. Madison's speech in the Con- vention of Virginia to the same effect ; and applied them to the case in question . It was true , he said , that the Constitution prohibited the general government from ...
... defence , promote the general welfare : " and in the eighteenth clause of the eighth section of the first article , " to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers ,, & c ...
... defence which the federal Constitution ever received ; not only this right is defended , but were the states to " adopt a regular plan of opposition , in which they should combine all their resources , " this authority , addressed to ...
... defence . " These just , humane , and most invaluable of all privileges , were taken from the alien : his " liberty " was to be suspended without any " crime " being defined , which he ought to avoid ; without any " trial by jury , " of ...