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“I regret not the repeal of the Alien or Sedition Law ... the framework of government for the states. The Alien and Sedition Acts were mistakes that Adams lived to regret.
Three of the four acts expired shortly after they were signed into law in the late 1700s. One remains active—and it’s been at ...
Repeal the Alien Enemies Act, A Human Rights Argument,” describes how the Trump administration has utilized the act as a ...
The Alien Enemies Act of 1798 is not merely a relic of a darker era in American history—it is a live wire capable of ...
Karen Ebel and Grace Shimizu, whose fathers were held prisoner in U.S. internment camps, explain the grave cost of ...
What is the Alien Enemies Act? It's an 18th-century law that allows the president to detain or deport immigrants from ...
Rund Abdelfatah and Ramtin Arablouei from NPR's Throughline talk with Daniel Tichenor, a professor of political science at the University of Oregon, about the origins of the Alien Enemies Act.
But the Alien and Sedition Acts were also a way for Adams' Federalist ... When Thomas Jefferson succeeded Adams in 1801, he repealed the other three parts of the Alien and Sedition Acts or let ...
TICHENOR: The Alien and Sedition Acts were incredibly unpopular ... completely done away with and repealed? TICHENOR: I think because it wasn't really used. So the Sedition Act was used.