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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... court of the United States having jurisdiction thereof , shall be punished by a fine not ... trial of the cause , to give in evidence in his defence , the truth of the matter contained in the publication charged as a libel . And the jury ...
... trial by jury ? That if once we were , to permit executive power to overleap its limits , where was it to stop ? And ,, if the executive branch exercised powers not bestowed , it overleaped the Constitution . He asked if we had arrived ...
... trial by jury . He said that aliens were not a party to the compact , but citizens only . The Constitution secured rights to citizens , and declared that they should not be deprived of them , but by trial by jury . But , aliens not ...
... jury to be tried . He cited also part of a speech of Mr. Madison , in the Convention of Virginia , nearly to the same effect ; and thereupon observed , that the trial by jury was only used in municipal regulations , where citizens and ...
... trial by jury should be held sacred . He said , he would then pro- ceed to examine if that right had never been pretermitted by any law of the state ; and requested that the law of Virginia , for removal of aliens , passed in 1792 ...