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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... as the absence of all government was the terror of their opponents ; and consolidation they viewed , justly , as the forerunner not of monarchy only , but of despotism . Mr. Hamilton , being a declared admirer of the English PREFACE. ...
... monarchy . This suspicion , undoubtedly unjust as regards the great mass of the Fede- ralists , was fortified . by their avowed opinions touching the necessity of what , in the phrase of the time , was called a strong government . The ...
... monarchy , and their late oppressor , and now appeared to be a reluctant and surly friend , in each and all of which characters , it was alike odious . The war had not been long in progress , when many Americans , stimu lated by French ...
... monarchy . 5. That the General Assembly doth particularly protest against the pal- pable and alarming infractions of the Constitution , in the two late cases of the " alien and sedition acts , " passed at the last session of Congress ...
... monarchy erected upon the ruins thereof . But on the contrary , if she discountenanced those measures , ( as she would do by the adoption of the resolutions , ) and could obtain the co - operation of the sister states , it might overawe ...