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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... exercise of the federal power , and consequently adopted a liberal construction of the Federal Constitution . The Republicans , on the other side , headed by Mr. Jefferson , were appre- hensive of a gradual absorption , by the central ...
... exercise of other powers not granted by the said compact , the States , who are the parties thereto , have the right , and are in duty bound , to interpose for arresting the progress of the evil , and for maintaining within their ...
... exercises a power nowhere delegated to the Federal Go vernment ; and which by uniting legislative and judicial powers to those of executive , subverts the general principles of free government , as well as the particular organization ...
... exercise of the faculties of the human mind , to be once restrained and shut up , he would ask them , then , what was man ? He was therefore opposed to those laws , as being destructive of the most essential human rights . He again ...
... exercising this power at that time . We had amongst us a number of dangerous Frenchmen . The chief author however of the plots had sneaked off , as well as his associates . He said he was happy to be clear of them . Since they were gone ...