Collectively, this legislation is known as the Alien and Sedition Acts. The Democratic-Republicans opposed the whole package as unconstitutional, but it was the Sedition Act that tainted Adams ...

Alien and Sedition Acts were reviled in their time, and John Adams was not sorry to see them go. Story by Marianne Holdzkom, Kennesaw State University • 1mo.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Marianne Holdzkom, Kennesaw State University (THE CONVERSATION) When John Adams ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Marianne Holdzkom, Kennesaw State University (THE CONVERSATION) When John Adams ...

The Alien and Sedition Acts were used to persecute Democratic-Republican critics. Rep. Matthew Lyon of Vermont gets into a different sort of trouble in this 1798 cartoon.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Marianne Holdzkom, Kennesaw State University (THE CONVERSATION) When John Adams ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Marianne Holdzkom, Kennesaw State University (THE CONVERSATION) When John Adams ...

The Alien Enemies Act is one of the laws enacted as part of the Alien and Sedition Acts in 1798 under President John Adams and the Federalist-controlled Congress. At the time, the U.S. was ...