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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... stitution to be formed in order to form a more perfect union , establish justice , insure domestic tranquillity , provide for the common defence , promote the general welfare , and secure the blessings of liberty to 32 DEBATE ON ...
... stitution , in its original form , would warrant , which cotemporaneous opinions had maintained , and which the Convention of Virginia had de- clared to be true . It was impossible for language to be so explicit as to produce a clause ...
... stitution to rank liberty next to life . If , therefore , an alien cannot be deprived of his property without trial by jury , he certainly should not be deprived of his liberty without the same kind of trial . On that account , then ...
... stitution alluded to above , that no power to make an alien law is granted . When gentlemen are called upon to justify the assumption of power , they desert the ground of the law being justifiable agreeable to the letter of the ...
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