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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... liberty founded on law , nor were capable of attaining them , and they conceived all their conclu- sions confirmed by the succession of tragic scenes which accompanied the progress of the Revolution . Thenceforward sympathy with France ...
... liberty . The Alien Act was accordingly passed 25th June , 1798 , being especially aimed , it was thought , at Volney , Collot , Priestley , and a few others . Then they essayed to curb what they called the licentiousness of the press ...
... liberty of conscience and of the press cannot be cancelled , abridged , re- strained , or modified by any authority of the United States , " and from its extreme anxiety to guard these rights from every possible attack of sophis- try or ...
... liberty was in danger , and as that rested on the foundation of responsibility , every effort should be made to repel attempts to subvert it . He could as- sure them , that his feeble efforts should be used for that purpose . He said ...
... liberty , and property ; and that these common law rights were secured by the Constitution ; to prove which , he quoted that clause of the Constitution by which those rights are secured , which Constitution literally reached aliens , by ...