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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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 : why was this cautious
enumeration of powers necessary, except to keep Congress within the strict and
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That if Congress did not constitu; tionally possess the power over aliens, which
they had exercised, the exercising it ... to the constitutional exercise of which only
the three branches were competent, as that the whole should assume powers ...
It was to impose on Congress the duty of defending each state from invasion.
Congress, in the eighth section, had the power of declaring war; yet, without this-
section, Congress was not bound to exercise this power ; and but for this section,
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