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In the context of the Quasi-War with France, the Alien and Sedition Acts were passed by Congress. The Acts were overwhelmingly supported by the Federalists and mostly opposed by the Democratic-Republicans. Some Democratic-Republicans, such as Timothy Bloodworth, said they would support formally going to war against France but they opposed the ...
The Alien and Sedition Acts were a set of four laws enacted in 1798 that applied restrictions to immigration and speech in the United States. [a] The Naturalization Act of 1798 increased the requirements to seek citizenship, the Alien Friends Act of 1798 allowed the president to imprison and deport non-citizens, the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 gave the president additional powers to detain non ...
These acts were four bills passed in 1798 by the Federalist Congress and signed into law by Adams. These acts placed heavy restrictions on immigrants, especially those from France and Ireland, as these were both countries that were predominately Republican.
The Naturalization Act of 1798 (1 Stat. 566, enacted June 18, 1798) passed by the United States Congress, to amend the residency and notice periods of the previous Naturalization Act of 1795. It increased the period necessary for aliens to become naturalized citizens in the United States from 5 to 14 years and the Declaration of Intention from ...
The current version of the act was last invoked by President George H.W. Bush during the 1992 Los Angeles riots that followed the acquittal of four White police officers in the beating of Rodney King.
William G. Soler. A Reattribution: John Dickinson's Authorship of the Pamphlet "A Caution," 1798. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 77, No.1 (January 1953), pp. 24–31. Smith, James Morton (1954). "The Enforcement of the Alien Friends Act of 1798". The Mississippi Valley Historical Review. 41 (1): 85– 104. doi:10.2307 ...
George Logan was a Senator who secretly negotiated with France in 1798. Many were outraged that an average citizen went to Paris to negotiate with a foreign power and so they passed the Logan Act in response. John Adams signed the bill. The intent behind the Act is to prevent unauthorized negotiations from undermining the government's position ...
Rather than purporting to nullify the Alien and Sedition Acts, the 1798 Resolutions called on the other states to join Kentucky "in declaring these acts void and of no force" and "in requesting their repeal at the next session of Congress". The Kentucky Resolutions of 1799 were written to respond to the states who had rejected the 1798 Resolutions.