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., 2004 - 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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... as limited by the plain sense and intention of the instrument constituting that
compact; as no further valid than they are authorized by the grants enumerated in
that compact j and that in case of a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous exercise
...
With respect to the supposed operation of what was denominated the sweeping
clause, the gentleman, he said, was mistaken ; for, it only extended to the
enumerated powers. Should Congress attempt to extend it to any power not
enumerated ...
... (Mr. Lee observed,) an enumeration' of particular rights, with the friends to
forced construction there would have been ... the government could exercise no
power but. what was specifically enumerated, it behooved the authors or
supporters ...
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