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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... unconstitutional , and not law . These laws , he said , had been passed by both houses of Congress . One of those houses was formed of the immediate representatives of the whole American people , the other of members chosen by the state ...
... unconstitutional , the general government could not remove them . He read the observations of Mr. Jefferson respecting the necessity of a government having the powers of defence and protection ; also Mr. Madison's speech in the Con ...
... unconstitutional ; since it might absolutely defeat the 9th section . But that a temporary law passed only for the pur- pose of ordering away dangerous aliens , was a law of protection to the states . It was a necessary power for every ...
... unconstitutional in two points : and , after observing that , although an alien did not enjoy all the rights of a citizen , yet he enjoyed some , he proceeded to show in what points that law was unconstitutional . He thought it so for ...
... unconstitutional acts would be most readily ob tained . It was a solemn appeal to the understanding of the committee ; yet , the injuries of France to America , her excesses in Europe , always magnified and misrepresented by the enemies ...