An emergency hospital at Camp Funston, Kansas, 1918. “Of the 12 men who slept ... At Wilson’s urging, Congress passed the Sedition Act, making it punishable with 20 years in prison to ...

Congress passed the Alien Enemies Act as part of the four Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 when the U.S. was about to go to war with France. RELATED: Supreme Court hears arguments over birthright ...

"I really saw the Alien Enemies law as a war power and as only to be implemented in times of declared war," said historian Terri Halperin, the author of The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798: Testing ...

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On April 4, Muhyiddin Yassin filed an application to refer questions of law regarding the Sedition Act 1948 to the Federal Court to challenge the validity of certain provisions in the Act.

Additional messages on the poster describe an “absence of assets that make creative dissent possible” and claim that Judaism “came into being as an act of dissent.” Ginsberg said school ...

Chip Northrup’s letter to the editor titled “‘We the People’ Versus Tyrants” that appeared in the April 24 edition of “The Freeman’s Journal” accurately portrayed my distant ancestor, John Adams, as ...

President John Adams regretted signing the Alien & Sedition Acts. Imagine what he would say today if he learned that one of his successors in office was using one of those laws–The Alien Enemies ...

No evidence of disloyalty or criminal behavior is necessary. Along with the Naturalization Act, the Sedition Act, and the Alien Friends Act, it made up the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 ...