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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... parties of its day , is still , —though more praised than read , —highly esteemed as a commentary on the Federal Constitution . The other papers which go along with the " Report , " are intended , like this preface , only to ...
... parties with different emotions . The Republicans looked on in trusting faith that it would result in giving to France institutions modelled after our own , cal- culated to insure rational freedom , but affording no encouragement to ...
... Parties in the United States were thus situated when General Washington , at the end of his second term , resigned the reins of power to Mr. Adams , who was himself a Federalist , and chose his cabinet from those of kindred sentiments ...
... parties with peculiar interest . The plan of opposition to be pursued there was probably arranged by Mr. Jefferson and Mr. Madison , though neither was a member . The plan was to resolve that the Alien and Sedition Laws were ...
... parties , as limited by the plain sense and intention of the instrument constituting that compact ; as no further valid than they are authorized by the grants enumerated in that compact ; and that in case of a deliberate , palpable ...