State Replies to the Resolutions - Lance Banning, Liberty and Order: The First American Party Struggle [2004]
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- Preface
- Part 1: Apprehensions
- The Anti-federalists
- Letters From the Federal Farmer, No. 7 31 December 1787
- “brutus,” Essay Ii 1 November 1787
- Amendments Recommended By the Several State Conventions
- Amendments Proposed By the Virginia Convention 27 June 1788
- Ratification of the State of New York 26 July 1788
- Federalist Concerns
- James Madison to George Washington New York, 11 August 1788
- Madison to Washington New York, 24 August 1788
- James Madison to Thomas Jefferson 21 September 1788
- Madison to Jefferson 8 December 1788
- The Bill of Rights
- Proceedings In the House of Representatives 8 June 1789
- Proceedings In the House of Representatives 13 August 1789
- Apprehensions Unallayed
- “pacificus” to James Madison
- Popular Instruction of Representatives 15 August 1789
- Titles
- Part 2: The Leadership Divides
- Funding and Assumption
- Alexander Hamilton the First Report On Public Credit 14 January 1790
- Debates In the House of Representatives On the First Report On Public Credit 9–18 February 1790
- Thomas Jefferson Memorandum On the Compromise of 1790
- Opposition Out of Doors
- Virginia’s Remonstrance Against the Assumption of State Debts 16 December 1790
- The Constitution and the National Bank
- Alexander Hamilton Notes On the Advantages of a National Bank 27 March 1791
- James Madison’s Speech On the Bank Bill 2 February 1791
- Thomas Jefferson Opinion On the Constitutionality of a National Bank 15 February 1791
- Alexander Hamilton Opinion On the Constitutionality of a National Bank 15 February 1791
- James Madison to Thomas Jefferson On Speculative Excess Summer 1791
- Commerce and Manufactures
- Thomas Jefferson Notes On the State of Virginia 1785
- Jefferson and Madison On Republican Political Economy
- James Madison Speech In the House of Representatives On Commercial Retaliation and Discrimination 25 April 1789
- Congressional Proceedings On Commercial Discrimination 1789
- Alexander Hamilton Report On the Subject of Manufactures 5 December 1791
- The Collision
- James Madison Essays For the National Gazette 1792
- William Branch Giles Speech In the House of Representatives On the Apportionment Bill 9 April 1792
- Letters of Fisher Ames to George Richards Minot 1791–1792
- Philip Freneau “rules For Changing a Limited Republican Government Into an Unlimited Hereditary One” 4 and 7 July 1792
- Alexander Hamilton to Edward Carrington 26 May 1792
- An Administration Divided
- James Madison Further Essays For the National Gazette
- Part III. The French Revolution and the People
- Neutrality
- “an Old French Soldier” (philadelphia) General Advertiser 27 August 1793
- Alexander Hamilton “pacificus,” No. 1 29 June 1793
- James Madison “helvidius,” No. 1 24 August 1793
- James Madison “helvidius,” No. 4 14 September 1793
- Commerce and Seizures
- William Loughton Smith Speech In the House of Representatives 13 January 1794
- James Madison Speech In the House of Representatives 14 January 1794
- James Madison “political Observations” 20 April 1795
- The Popular Societies, the Excise, and the Whiskey Rebellion
- The Democratic Society of Pennsylvania (philadelphia) Principles, Articles, and Regulations 30 May 1793
- Condemnations, Defenses, and Society Attacks On the Excise
- The Rebellion
- “self-created Societies”
- Alexander Hamilton the “camillus” Essays 22 July 1795–9 January 1796
- House Debates On Implementing Jay’s Treaty 1796
- Washington’s Farewell Address 19 September 1796
- Part 4: Liberty and Order
- The Black Cockade Fever
- Philadelphia, 1798
- Addresses to the President, With His Replies April–august 1798
- The Sedition Act 14 July 1798
- Popular Protest
- “advertisement Extraordinary!!!” (philadelphia) Aurora 14 July 1798
- The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions
- Thomas Jefferson Draft of the Kentucky Resolutions October 1798
- James Madison the Virginia Resolutions 21 December 1798
- State Replies to the Resolutions
- Congressional Report Defending the Alien and Sedition Laws 21 February 1799
- James Madison the Report of 1800
- The Jeffersonian Program
- Thomas Jefferson the First Inaugural Address 4 March 1801
- Thomas Jefferson First Annual Message 8 December 1801
- The Jeffersonian Vision
- Letters of the President 1799–1802
- Edmund Pendleton “the Danger Not Over” 5 October 1801
- Fisher Ames “falkland,” No. 2 6 February 1801
- Repeal of the Judiciary Act of 1801
- Congressional Proceedings
- Editorials On the Repeal “a Friend of the Constitution” [william Cranch], No. 1 Washington Federalist 7 December 1801
- The Impeachment of Samuel Chase, 1804–1805
- Albert Gallatin Report On Internal Improvements 4 April 1808
- The Louisiana Purchase
- Thomas Jefferson to Robert R. Livingston 18 April 1802
- Thomas Jefferson to John C. Breckinridge 12 August 1803
- Thomas Jefferson to Wilson Cary Nicholas 7 September 1803
- [alexander Hamilton] “purchase of Louisiana” New York Evening Post 5 July 1803
- Federalist Alarm
- A Republican Response
- Senate Debates On the Louisiana Purchase 2–3 November 1803
- The Embargo
- An Act Laying an Embargo On All Ships and Vessels In the Ports and Harbors of the United States 22 December 1807
- Resistance, Enforcement, and Repeal
- The War of 1812
- Madison’s War Message 2 June 1812
- Samuel Taggart, Speech Opposing the War 24 June 1812
- Henry Clay, Speech Supporting the War 9 January 1813
- Report and Resolutions of the Hartford Convention 4 January 1815
- Part 7: The End of an Era
- Madison’s Seventh Annual Message 5 December 1815
- Madison’s Veto of the Internal Improvements Bill 3 March 1817
- In Retrospect
- The Adams-jefferson Correspondence John Adams to Thomas Jefferson 13 July 1813
- Thomas Jefferson to Justice William Johnson 12 June 1823
- Republican Farewells
- Bibliography
State Replies to the Resolutions
The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations to Virginia February 1799
Certain resolutions of the Legislature of Virginia, passed on the 21st of December last, being communicated to the Assembly,—
1. Resolved, That, in the opinion of this legislature, the second section of the third article of the Constitution of the United States, in these words, to wit—“The judicial power shall extend to all cases arising under the laws of the United States”—vests in the federal courts, exclusively, and in the Supreme Court of the United States, ultimately, the authority of deciding on the constitutionality of any act or law of the Congress of the United States.
2. Resolved, That for any state legislature to assume that authority would be—
1st. Blending together legislative and judicial powers;
2nd. Hazarding an interruption of the peace of the states by civil discord, in case of a diversity of opinions among the state legislatures; each state having, in that case, no resort for vindicating its own opinions but the strength of its own arm;
3rd. Submitting most important questions of law to less competent tribunals; and,
4th. An infraction of the Constitution of the United States, expressed in plain terms.
3. Resolved, That although, for the above reasons, this legislature, in their public capacity, do not feel themselves authorized to consider and decide on the constitutionality of the Sedition and Alien Laws (so called), yet they are called upon by the exigency of this occasion to declare that, in their private opinions, these laws are within the powers delegated to Congress, and promotive of the welfare of the United States.
4. Resolved, That the governor communicate these resolutions to the supreme executive of the state of Virginia and at the same time express to him that this legislature cannot contemplate, without extreme concern and regret, the many evil and fatal consequences which may flow from the very unwarrantable resolutions aforesaid… .
New Hampshire Resolution on the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions 15 June 1799
The legislature of New Hampshire, having taken into consideration certain resolutions of the General Assembly of Virginia, dated December 21, 1798; also certain resolutions of the legislature of Kentucky, of the 10th of November 1798—
Resolved, That the legislature of New Hampshire unequivocally express a firm resolution to maintain and defend the Constitution of the United States, and the constitution of this state, against every aggression, either foreign or domestic, and that they will support the government of the United States in all measures warranted by the former.
That the state legislatures are not the proper tribunals to determine the constitutionality of the laws of the general government; that the duty of such decision is properly and exclusively confided to the judicial department.
That if the legislature of New Hampshire, for mere speculative purposes, were to express an opinion on the acts of the general government commonly called “the Alien and Sedition Bills,” that opinion would unreservedly be that those acts are constitutional and, in the present critical situation of our country, highly expedient.
That the constitutionality and expediency of the acts aforesaid have been very ably advocated and clearly demonstrated by many citizens of the United States, more especially by the minority of the General Assembly of Virginia. The legislature of New Hampshire, therefore, deem it unnecessary, by any train of arguments, to attempt further illustration of the propositions, the truth of which, it is confidently believed, at this day, is very generally seen and acknowledged.
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