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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... expressly and positively forbidden by one of the amendments thereto ; a power which more than any other ought to produce universal alarm , because it is levelled against that right of freely examining public characters and measures ...
... expressly given to it , or did not follow by necessary impli cation . The case , he said , was still the same . In regard to an express grant , there could be no dispute ; and the doctrine of necessary implication was proved by the ...
... expressly declares , that " the powers not delegated to the United States , by the Constitution , nor prohibited by it to the states , are reserved to the states respectively , or to the people . " And as at the same time , he said ...
... expressly , was not to be found there . Mr. Mercer hoped the committee would not believe this single term essential to ascertain the limitation of power under which Congress were bound to act . The words of the amendment were general ...
... expressly " vested " in Congress by the Constitution . It could give no new power . It would be absurd to suppose , that after a special enumeration of powers , limited by the terms of the grant , that any general expressions could so ...