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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... 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 by the Sedition Act , which received the ...
... passed . Sect . 6. And be it farther enacted , That this act shall continue and be in force for and during the term of two years from the passing thereof . SEDITION ACT . An act in addition to the act intituled , " An act for the ...
... passed at the last session of Congress , the first of which exercises a power nowhere delegated to the Federal Go vernment ; and which by uniting legislative and judicial powers to those of executive , subverts the general principles of ...
... passing the alien and sedition laws , had overleaped its bounds . He mentioned a law , which Congress had passed at the ... passed by Congress , as well as a law of Virginia , upon that subject , were made in favour of aliens . They were ...
... passed ? The adoption of the Constitution by this state was accompanied by a condition contain- ing a reservation of these very rights : so that they must have been un- derstood in a very different sense then , than when these laws of ...