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What is the Alien Enemies Act? Here's how the 1798 law was invoked in the past.
The law, which gives the president sweeping powers over non-citizens, was part of a set of statutes that emerged during the ...
What is the Alien Enemies Act of 1798? What to know about the rarely used wartime law
Donald Trump is expected to invoke a rarely-used Alien Enemies Act of 1798 in an effort to ramp up deportations.
Alien and Sedition Acts were reviled in their time, and John Adams was not sorry to see them go
At a time when the current presidential administration is tightening control of the media and even invoking the Alien ...
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The Alien and Sedition Acts Weren’t Designed for Justice
The use of the Alien and Sedition Acts to target a group pre-supposed to be hostile to Adams’s political agenda was based entirely on a desire to target political enemies. Particular people ...