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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... observe that this edition is intended especially for the use of students , and that the learned reader must expect to find in the notes , and in the analysis prefixed to the report , much with which he could dispense . THE VIRGINIA ...
... observations . He should consider the constitutionality of the laws referred to in the resolutions , and their cor- respondence with human rights , natural and civil . He compared the ex ecutive of Great Britain with , the Congress of ...
... observed that , suppose government ( never an enemy to power ) should strengthen its hands by corruption , by patronage , by standing armies , by a system of fears , ( he would not say that our government had done so , but in case a ...
... observed , was an epithet which might be applied to any attempt to restrain usurpation . Men find no . difficulty in pronouncing opinions to be both false and licentious , which differ from their own . That this same distinc- tion ( if ...
... observations upon the first of the two subjects , to which he had before mentioned he should confine them , by saying that , if he had proved the laws spoken of to be unconstitutional , the objection to them on that ground was strong ...