Criminal Dissent: Prosecutions under the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798

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In the first complete account of prosecutions under the Alien and Sedition Acts, dozens of previously unknown cases come to light, revealing the lengths to which the John Adams administration went in order to criminalize dissentThe campaign to prosecute dissenting Americans under the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 ignited the first battle over the Bill of Rights Fearing destructive criticism and 8220 domestic treachery8221by Republicans, the administration of John Adams led a determined effort to safeguard the young republic by suppressing the oppositionThe acts gave the president unlimited discretion to deport noncitizens and made it a crime to criticize the president, Congress, or the federal government In this definitive account, Wendell Bird goes back to the original federal court records and the papers of Secretary of State Timothy Pickering and finds that the administration8217 s zeal was far greater than historians have recognized Indeed, there were

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