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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... act . And all marshals and other officers of the United States are required ... alien who may be ordered to be removed from the United States , by vir- tue ... alien who may be removed as aforesaid , shall be and re- main subject to his ...
... act of the President of the United States , done in pursuance of any such law , or of the powers in him vested by the Constitution of the United States ; or to resist , oppose , or defeat any such law or act ... ALIEN AND SEDITION ACTS . 21.
... alien without a trial , and in the mean time his being imprisoned . Yet that legislature , in passing that law , did not suppose it had violated the Constitution . He then read the act of Congress under consideration . He compared both acts ...
... alien incendiaries . It was necessary then , that the United States should ... alien law , he said , was unconstitutional in two points : and , after ... act , ( the President being thereby armed with legislative and judicial , as ...
... law , ( except , indeed , where the Constitution interposes . ) they must be incompetent to the passage of a temporary one . But the gentle- man , he said , had attempted to prove the constitutionality of that act , by saying that ...