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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... country into which he came . During his stay therein , he was to be protected indeed by those laws ; but was not the object of them . He cited and read Vattel again , page 100 , section 231 30 DEBATE ON VIRGINIA RESOLUTIONS .
... protection of the government of that nation , though liable to be sent or ordered away , whenever that govern- ment saw occasion , or its safety required it . If there were nothing then , he said , in the Constitution of the United ...
... protect him , and thereby the general welfare in that instance defeated , and Congress laid at the mercy of the ... protection , should possess the power of removing them . But , if the law of Congress were to be construed ...
... protect each of them against invasion . He relied much upon the term protect used in that clause . Protection , he said , was a preventing , a guarding against . He would compare it to a shield , which an individual cast before him to ...
... protect as Well as vindicate its citizens ; and before a trial of the fact could be had , the person apprehending danger might be murdered . He again cited Mr. Jefferson's piece to prove , that no cases under the law of nations were ...