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

President John Adams regretted signing the Alien & Sedition Acts.  Imagine what he would say today if he learned that one of ...

What is the Alien Enemies Act? It's an 18th-century law that allows the president to detain or deport immigrants from ...

it made up the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798, which President John Adams signed into law at a time when the U.S. faced the prospect of war with France. "Whenever there shall be a declared war ...

Rund Abdelfatah and Ramtin Arablouei from NPR's Throughline talk with Daniel Tichenor, a professor of political science at ...

Congress debated the Alien Enemies Act from May through June of 1798 before President John Adams signed it into ... and jailed for violating the Alien and Sedition Acts and then the only person ...