The Alien and Sedition Acts was enacted by John Adams’s Federalist administration in preparation for a war that didn’t ...

the majority Federalist Congress passed four acts collectively known as the Alien and Sedition Acts. The Naturalization Act increased from five to 14 the number of years that immigrants must wait ...

The Sedition Act wouldn’t be the last time a fearful U.S. Congress preparing for war would try to silence opposition. In 1918, during World War I, Congress passed – and President Woodrow ...

The Sedition Act did even more than the Espionage ... The Deportation Option Deportation laws passed in 1917 and subsequent years gave the government even more power to suppress radicalism.

Two other laws in the Alien and Sedition Acts increased the number of years an immigrant needed to be in the U.S. to become a citizen and allowed the president to deport non-citizens deemed to be ...

PETALING JAYA: Lawmakers, lawyers, activists and policy makers are generally united in their opinion - it is time to repeal the 66-year old Sedition Act, and not replace it with a new one.

He is charged under Section 4(1)(b) of the Sedition Act 1948, which is punishable under Subsection 4(1) of the same Act with a maximum fine of RM5,000 or a maximum jail term of three years ...