The Virginia Report of 1799-1800: Touching the Alien and Sedition Laws; Together with the Virginia Resolutions of December 21, 1798, Including the Debate and Proceedings Thereon in the House of Delegates of Virginia and Other Documents Illustrative of the Report and ResolutionsJ.W. Randolph, 1850 - 264 halaman |
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... consider those laws as merely an experiment on the American mind , to see how it will bear an avowed violation of the Constitution . If this goes down , we shall immediately see attempted another act of Congress , de- claring that the ...
... consider those laws as merely an experiment on the American mind , to see how it will bear an avowed violation of the Constitution . If this goes down , we shall immediately see attempted another act of Congress , de- claring that the ...
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... consider the constitutionality of the laws referred to in the resolutions , and their cor- respondence with human rights , natural and civil . He compared the ex ecutive of Great Britain with the Congress of the United States . The ...
... consider the constitutionality of the laws referred to in the resolutions , and their cor- respondence with human rights , natural and civil . He compared the ex ecutive of Great Britain with the Congress of the United States . The ...
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... consider well the subject before them . He said , it was an important one , as the object of inquiry seemed to be , to impeach with unconstitutionality , two laws passed by both Houses of Congress , and by them declared to be ...
... consider well the subject before them . He said , it was an important one , as the object of inquiry seemed to be , to impeach with unconstitutionality , two laws passed by both Houses of Congress , and by them declared to be ...
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... effect in the community . It was scarcely possible to consider the measures of our own government , and candidly to examine their influence upon the public happiness , without being 40 DEBATE ON VIRGINIA RESOLUTIONS .
... effect in the community . It was scarcely possible to consider the measures of our own government , and candidly to examine their influence upon the public happiness , without being 40 DEBATE ON VIRGINIA RESOLUTIONS .
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... consider the latter . To preserve the Constitution , was to preserve the union ; and to maintain that , upon the principles upon which it was origi nally formed , was to bid defiance to every foreign power , whose conduct might be ...
... consider the latter . To preserve the Constitution , was to preserve the union ; and to maintain that , upon the principles upon which it was origi nally formed , was to bid defiance to every foreign power , whose conduct might be ...
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Halaman 205 - All charges of war, and all other expenses that shall be incurred for the common defence, or general welfare, and allowed by the United States in Congress assembled, shall be defrayed out of a common treasury, which shall be supplied by the several States in proportion to the value of all land within each State, granted to, or surveyed for, any person, as such land and the buildings and improvements thereon shall be estimated, according to such mode as the United States in Congress assembled shall,...
Halaman 168 - That the Government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers; but that as in all other cases of compact among parties having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions, as of the mode and measure of redress.
Halaman 144 - The liberty of the press is indeed essential to the nature of a free state ; but this consists in laying no previous restraints upon publications, and not in freedom from censure for criminal matter when published.
Halaman 97 - Constitution which declares that no person shall be deprived of his life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.
Halaman 81 - That the freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments.
Halaman 203 - ... that a spirit has in sundry instances, been manifested by the Federal Government, to enlarge its powers by forced constructions of the constitutional charter which defines them ; and that indications have appeared of a design to expound certain general phrases (which having been copied from the very limited grant of powers in the former articles of confederation were the less liable to be misconstrued), so as to destroy the meaning and effect of the particular enumeration, which necessarily explains...
Halaman 37 - The Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the Year 1808, but a Tax or duty may be imposed on such Importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each Person.
Halaman 28 - That this Assembly doth explicitly and peremptorily declare that it views the powers of the Federal Government, as resulting from the compact, to which the states are parties...
Halaman 169 - States, all lawful powers respecting the same did of right remain, and were reserved to the States or to the people ; that thus was manifested their determination to retain to themselves the right of judging how far the licentiousness of speech and of the press may be abridged without lessening their useful freedom, and how far those abuses which cannot be separated from their use should be tolerated rather than the use be destroyed...
Halaman 28 - 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 enumerated in that compact; and that, in case of a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous exercise of other powers not granted by the said compact, the States, who are parties thereto, have the right and are in duty bound to interpose for arresting the progress of the evil, and for maintaining within their respective limits the authorities,...