The Alien and Sedition Acts were a set of four laws enacted in 1798 that applied restrictions to immigration and speech in the United States. The Naturalization...
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forefathers many years of toil, privation, and blood to establish. In response to the 1798 Alien and Sedition Acts—advanced by the Federalist Party—John Taylor...
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Federalist Party (section Alien and Sedition Acts)
passed the Alien and Sedition Acts in 1798. The Alien Act empowered the President to deport such aliens as he declared to be dangerous. The Sedition Act made...
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position that the federal Alien and Sedition Acts were unconstitutional. The resolutions argued that the states had the right and the duty to declare unconstitutional...
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384. National Archives, Transcript of the Alien and Sedition Acts. Library of Congress: Alien and Sedition Acts. Powell, 1967, p. 28. Lee, 1917, pp. 102–103...
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John Adams (category Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences)
Alexander Hamilton. Adams signed the controversial Alien and Sedition Acts and built up the Army and Navy in an undeclared naval war with France. He was...
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foreign and domestic, the 5th Congress passed four bills, collectively known as the Alien and Sedition Acts. Signed into law by the president, these acts made...
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Freedom of speech in the United States (redirect from Time, place, and manner)
Amendment at the time, adopted the Alien and Sedition Acts. The laws prohibited the publication of "false, scandalous, and malicious writings against the...
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Quasi-War with France, the Alien and Sedition Acts were passed by Congress. The Acts were overwhelmingly supported by the Federalists and mostly opposed by the...
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Sedition Act may refer to: Alien and Sedition Acts, including the Sedition Act of 1798, laws passed by the United States Congress Sedition Act 1661, an...
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when it was used in the Naturalization Act and then 1798 when it was used in the Alien and Sedition Acts. Although the INA provides no overarching explicit...
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Thomas Jefferson (category American book and manuscript collectors)
unpopular taxes and vicious Federalist infighting over his actions in the Quasi-War. Democratic-Republicans pointed to the Alien and Sedition Acts and accused...
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Federalist Era (section Alien and Sedition Acts)
France, and many Americans rallied to Adams. In the wake of these foreign policy tensions, the Federalists imposed the Alien and Sedition Acts to crack...
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James Madison (section Early life and education)
constitutional rights by passing the Alien and Sedition Acts, and they increasingly came to view Adams as a monarchist. Both Madison and Jefferson expressed the belief...
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States' rights (section Alien and Sedition Acts)
the Federalists passed the Alien and Sedition Acts in 1798, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison secretly wrote the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, which...
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Benjamin Franklin Bache (section Marriage and children)
thought to have contributed to passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts by the 5th United States Congress and signed by President John Adams in 1798. The...
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Espionage Act of 1917 (redirect from Espionage and Sedition Acts)
documents, or explain the reasons for their actions. Related law Alien and Sedition Acts (late 18th century) Defense Secrets Act of 1911 (precursor) Venona...
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governments, and the party attacked the taxes the Federalists imposed. The Democratic-Republicans also denounced the Alien and Sedition Acts, which the...
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Congress passed the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798, under which new powers were granted to deport non-citizens. Specifically, the Alien Enemies Act allowed...
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actions to fight illegal immigration, including implementation of Alien and Sedition Acts, increase energy production by facilitating oil extraction, boost...
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List of people deported or removed from the United States (redirect from List of aliens deported from the United States)
immigrants. The Alien and Sedition Acts gave the President of the United States the power to arrest and subsequently deport any alien that he deemed dangerous...
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Revolution, and also passed the 1798 anti-immigrant Alien and Sedition Acts. When immigration rates to the nation exploded in the 1840s and 1850s, nativism...
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George Cabot (category Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences)
administration also grew over the Alien and Sedition Acts. Cabot defended John Marshall, a Federalist opponent of the Acts, to the shock of Cabot's friend...
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centralized state, and resisted the establishment of a national bank, the build-up of the army and the navy, and passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts. Jefferson...
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and cooperation in opposing the Alien and Sedition Acts. The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions did not attempt to prohibit enforcement of the Alien and...
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petition against the Adams-era Alien and Sedition Acts and taken to jail in chains; massive protests from Peck supporters and opponents of the administration...
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Naturalization Act of 1798 (category United States federal immigration and nationality legislation)
the Alien and Sedition Acts, together with three other laws passed contemporaneously in 1798 (the Alien Friends Act, Alien Enemies Act, and Sedition Act)...
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Midnight Judges Act (redirect from Judiciary acts of 1801)
negotiations with France, and the Alien and Sedition Acts and Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions. The campaign leading up to this election and the election itself...
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Principles of '98 (category Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions)
reaction to the Alien and Sedition Acts, the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions, nullification was discussed and cited by state courts and legislatures in...
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Aliens Act 1905 (UK) The Aliens Act of 1937 (South Africa) The Aliens Act 1880 (NZ) The Alien and Sedition Acts (USA) The Aliens Act of 2005 (Sweden)...
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