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. 9. 2018. - 264 страница 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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... Federal Constitution . The other papers which go along with the " Report , " are intended , like this preface , only ... government of the " Confederation , " were inclined to a vigorous exercise of the federal power , and consequently ...
... Federal Constitution . The other papers which go along with the " Report , " are intended , like this preface , only ... government of the " Confederation , " were inclined to a vigorous exercise of the federal power , and consequently ...
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... federal jurisprudence , created more alarm than the main topics of com- plaint , the Alien and Sedition Laws themselves . It was regarded as an accumulation , at one stroke , of all authority in the hands of the Federal Government ...
... federal jurisprudence , created more alarm than the main topics of com- plaint , the Alien and Sedition Laws themselves . It was regarded as an accumulation , at one stroke , of all authority in the hands of the Federal Government ...
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... Federal Government as resulting from the compact , to which the States are parties , as limited by the plain sense and intention of the instrument constituting that compact ; as no further valid than they are authorized by the grants ...
... Federal Government as resulting from the compact , to which the States are parties , as limited by the plain sense and intention of the instrument constituting that compact ; as no further valid than they are authorized by the grants ...
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... Federal Go vernment ; and which by uniting legislative and judicial powers to those of executive , subverts the general principles of free government , as well as the particular organization and positive provisions of the federal Consti ...
... Federal Go vernment ; and which by uniting legislative and judicial powers to those of executive , subverts the general principles of free government , as well as the particular organization and positive provisions of the federal Consti ...
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... us a body of men , of whom the President would be the despot : they would be entirely in his power . He further ... government had done so , but in case a government should do so , ) that in such case , this body of emigrants , thus ...
... us a body of men , of whom the President would be the despot : they would be entirely in his power . He further ... government had done so , but in case a government should do so , ) that in such case , this body of emigrants , thus ...
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