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Crisis in Freedom is the first and only book-length monograph on the Federalist statutes of the late-18th century which sought to deal with the diplomatic crisis in France and the political opposition from the Jeffersonian Republicans.
Reclaiming the American Revolution examines the struggles for political ascendancy between Federalists and the Republicans in the early days of the American Republic viewed through the lens of the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions authored by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison.…
This lengthy volume discusses passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts and demonstrates that the Federalists were following British precedents in their actions. James Morton Smith also lays a great deal of responsibility for the statutes upon President John Adams.…
The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions (or Resolves) were important political statements in favor of states' rights written secretly by Vice President Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in 1798. They were passed by the two states in opposition to the federal…
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