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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... secured by the Consti- tution . Then , if they were infringed , the Constitution was broken . If Congress could infringe the rights of those people , they might infringe the rights of others . One usurpation begat another . We 24 DEBATE ...
... secured by the Constitution ; to prove which , he quoted that clause of the Constitution by which those rights are secured , which Constitution literally reached aliens , by using in all places the term " per- sons , " not " natives ...
... secured by the same article which secures the freedom of speech . They might in the end be induced to regulate the mode of peti . tioning , that it might be performed orderly , and not licentiously , as it is in some countries , by ...
... secured ? That these rights were the fruit of victory , and recompense of blood . We had defended them against the arms of Britain . Never then let us surrender them to the arts of sophistry and ambition . Mr. George K. Taylor moved ...