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In May 1798, After Congress Released The Xyz Affair Dispatches To The Public, A Raucous Crowd Took To The Streets Of Philadelphia. Some Gathered To Pledge Their Support For The Government Of President John Adams, Others To Express Their Disdain For His Policies. Violence, Both Physical And Political, Threatened The Safety Of The City And The Union Itself. To Combat The Chaos And Protect The Nation From Both External And Internal Threats, The Federalists Swiftly Enacted The Alien And Sedition Acts. Oppressive Pieces Of Legislation Aimed At Separating So-called Genuine Patriots From Objects Of Suspicion, These Acts Sought To Restrict Political Speech, Whether Spoken Or Written, Soberly Planned Or Drunkenly Off-the-cuff. Little More Than Twenty Years After Americans Declared Independence And Less Than Ten Since They Ratified Both A New Constitution And A Bill Of Rights, The Acts Gravely Limited Some Of The Very Rights Those Bold Documents Had Promised To Protect. In The Alien And Sedition Acts Of 1798, Terri Diane Halperin Discusses The Passage Of These Laws And The Furor Over Them, As Well As The Difficulties Of Enforcement. She Describes In Vivid Detail The Heated Debates And Tempes

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Author

Halperin, Terri Diane, 1966- author

Publisher

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781421419695

Category

history

Subjects

Law, History, Political Science

Rating

4.5 / 5 (19 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14