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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... enumerated in that compact ; and that in case of a deliberate , palpable , and dangerous exercise of other powers ... enumeration , which necessarily explains and limits the gene- ral phrases , and so as to consolidate the States by ...
... enumerated their various acts of hostility towards us , and then asked if there was no danger to be apprehended from aliens of that country . He himself thought there was . He related also the numerous designs and machinations which ...
... enumeration of the powers of Congress " to define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas , and against the law of nations , " and said , that aliens came within it , since for an alien to conspire against the peace ...
... enumerated . Amongst them the following : " to provide for the common 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 ...
... enumeration of powers ; most of the great powers of Congress were here particularly defined . Those which they had a right to exercise , and which were not in this section , were as clearly ascertained in other parts of the instrument ...