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.

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 ...

John Adams called the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 "war measures." To opponents, they were unconstitutional and indefensible. To supporters, they protected the very foundations of the nation ...

(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 ...

The fatal defects of Trump's position are further illuminated when you compare his stance with James Madison's "Report of 1800," which critiqued the Alien and Sedition Acts. (The Alien Enemies Act ...