221. L. V. Edi. 1704. c. 118.
222. L. U. S. 1 Cong. 1 Sess. c. 20. §. 14.
223. Of the nature and efficacy of the writ of habeas corpus the student may be informed. Blacks. Com. 1. 135. 3. 135. 4. 438.
224. L. V. Edi. 1794. c. 118.
225. 1. Hale's Hist. P. C. 82, 342, &c.
226. Sir John Fenwicke was attainted for treason, by act of parliament, because he could not be convicted in the ordinary course of trials; the law requiring two witnesses in cases of treason, and there being but one, who could be had, to give testimony against him. Stat. 8 W 3. c. 6.
227. Blacks Com. 46.
228. The president of the court of appeals in Virginia was one of those who refused to pay the tax, until the question was judicially determined. The opinion of the author of this essay, with the reasons of it have been shewn before, page 197.
229. Preamble to the amendments proposed by the 1 Cong. 1 Sess.
230. De Lolme on the English constitution. 317. Phila. printed.
231. Letter from the American envoys to the French minister of foreign affairs. This nervous passage bespeaks its author; a gentleman who now fills the highest judicial office under the federal government.
232. See 3 Burrows Rep. 1743. 1 Blacks. Reports, 555. 4 Blacks Com. 291.
233. Report of the committee of the general assembly of Virginia on the alien and sedition laws, January 20, 1800.
234. Report of the committee of the general assembly of Virginia, &c.
235. Report of the committee of congress, on the petitions for the repeal of the alien and sedition laws; February 25, 1799.
236. Report of the Virginia assembly .... ut supra.
237. 2. Inst. 55.
238.Ibid. c. 45.
239. L. V. Edi. 1794, c. 121.
240. L. U. S. 5 Cong. c. 75.
241. Report of the committee of congress, February 25, 1799.
242. Report of the committee of the general assembly or Virginia, on the alien and sedition laws. ... January 20, 1800.
243. Vol. II. 349.
244. See Vattel, 296, 297.
245. L. V. Edi. 1794, c. 18.
246. C. U. S. Art. 1. §. 10.
247. C. U. S. Act. 1. Sec. 10.
248.Ibidem.
249. On the British Constitution, p. 164.
250. Resolutions of the general assembly of Virginia, December 21, 1798. Also the resolution of the general convention of Virginia, ratifying the constitution of the U. States.... for which see ante.
