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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... sovereignty , and the erection of a government consolidated , and therefore despotic . " Other assumptions of ungiven power , " said Mr. Jefferson , " have been in detail . The bank law , the treaty doctrine , the sedition act , alien ...
... sovereignty of the several individual states ; .as the twelfth article of the amendments to the Federal Constitution expressly declares , that " the powers not delegated to the United States , by the Constitution , nor prohibited by it ...
... sovereignty of the states " over the reserved rights ; that sovereignty continued entire ; and remained as to the reserved rights , what it had been with respect to all the rights , before the federal Constitution . If the remaining ...
... sovereignty did not attach to the federal government in all their extent : it was sovereign only with respect to the rights which it could exercise exclusively : it was limited in its operation , and the boundaries of its authority ...
... sovereignty of the states ; and whenever this took place , the states had a right to communicate with each other , in the manner contemplated by the resolutions now before the committee . But if he had been convinced that this power was ...