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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... opinion of the President , the public safety requires a speedy removal . And if any alien so removed or sent out of the United States by the President shall voluntarily return thereto , unless by permission of the President of the ...
... opinion of the President , the public safety requires a speedy removal . And if any alien so removed or sent out of the United States by the President shall voluntarily return thereto , unless by permission of the President of the ...
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... opinion , he said , should be held sacred . It ought never to be given up in any one instance . Re- ligion was only a branch of opinion . With what propriety could that range of thought , bestowed by the Creator upon the human mind , be ...
... opinion , he said , should be held sacred . It ought never to be given up in any one instance . Re- ligion was only a branch of opinion . With what propriety could that range of thought , bestowed by the Creator upon the human mind , be ...
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... opinion , he stated that the people of the United States were at this time under the pressure of certain grievances . The way then to stop civil war , would be to stop op- pression . But , said gentlemen , we must not disunite . To this ...
... opinion , he stated that the people of the United States were at this time under the pressure of certain grievances . The way then to stop civil war , would be to stop op- pression . But , said gentlemen , we must not disunite . To this ...
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... more so . They contained a declaration , not of opinion , but of fact . They declared the acts of Congress , called the alien and sedition laws , to be unconstitutional , and not law . These laws , DEBATE ON VIRGINIA RESOLUTIONS . 29.
... more so . They contained a declaration , not of opinion , but of fact . They declared the acts of Congress , called the alien and sedition laws , to be unconstitutional , and not law . These laws , DEBATE ON VIRGINIA RESOLUTIONS . 29.
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... opinion upon them ; and if their opinion should be such as the resolutions stated , they should still endeavour to couch that opinion in different language ; for , by those resolutions , as they then stood , the people were encouraged ...
... opinion upon them ; and if their opinion should be such as the resolutions stated , they should still endeavour to couch that opinion in different language ; for , by those resolutions , as they then stood , the people were encouraged ...
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