...has in sundry instances been manifested by the federal government, to enlarge its powers,' concludes 'so as to consolidate the states by degrees, into one sovereignty, the ob-* vious tendency and inevitable result of which would be, to transform the present republican system...

...manifested "by the Federal Government to enlarge its powers by forced constructions" of the constitution, "so as to consolidate the States, by degrees, into...States into an absolute, or, at best, a mixed monarchy" (6:327). The resolution goes on to "particularly protest" the "palpable and alarming infractions of...

...constructions of the constitutional charter," as well as "a design to expound certain general phrases ... so as to destroy the meaning and effect of the particular...necessarily explains and limits the general phrases. . . ,"68 The "inevitable consequence" of these tendencies would transform "the present republican system...

...Virginia Resolutions, the Federalists would "consolidate the states by degree into one sovereignty" and so "transform the present republican system of the United States, into an absolute, or at best a mixed monarchy."51 To prevent this unhappy outcome, Jefferson told a correspondent, the people must sustain...

...executive government. 57. This charge is made in the Virginia Resolutions, December 24, 1798: "and so ... consolidate the states, by degrees, into one sovereignty, the obvious tendency and inevitable consequence of which would be to transform the present republican system of the United States into...

...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...necessarily, explains and limits the general phrases; so as to consolidate the States by degrees into one sovereignty, the obvious tendency and inevitable...

...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...necessarily, explains and limits the general phrases; so as to consolidate the States by degrees into one sovereignty, the obvious tendency and inevitable...

...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...necessarily, explains and limits the general phrases; so as to consolidate the States by degrees into one sovereignty, the obvious tendency and inevitable...

...charged in the resolutions that the unauthorized extension of power of the federal government threatened to "transform the present republican system of the...States into an absolute, or at best, a mixed monarchy." Specifically, Madison's resolutions attacked the Alien Act as an unconstitutional consolidation of...

...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...one sovereignty, the obvious tendency and inevitable consequence of which would be to transform the present republican system of the United States into...