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.
|
Z wnętrza książki
Wyniki 6 - 10 z 65
... opinion too , the pro- hibition of the right of Congress by that clause , extended only to such states - as were existing at the time of framing the Constitution ; which showed that Congress of course might regulate the migration of ...
... opinion that those objects would be produced in a higher degree by continuing the present members in office for ten years , or for life ? Was there any person who then heard him , who would think such an exercise of power legitimate ...
... opinion which he entertained , or in the purity of the motives that would ultimately direct his vote . On the one ' hand , he was deeply impressed with the importance of the subject ; on the other , he felt and acknowledged his own ...
... opinion contained in the resolu- tions was coeval with the Constitution itself , and had been maintained by the most enlightened commentary which had been produced in America upon that instrument ( he alluded to a collection of papers ...
... opinions may be erroneous , it was still the best authority that could be produced . The time of its being written was ... opinion of the resolutions so clearly admitted , as to be consi- dered a " political axiom - in our system . " The ...