1798 newspaper ALIEN & SEDITION ACTS 1st NEWS Printing
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Please visit our EBAY STORE at the link directly below for HUNDREDS of HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS on sale or at auction: /Steve-Goldman-HISTORICAL-NEWSPAPERS_W0QQsspagenameZL2222QQtZkm SEE PHOTO----- COMPLETE ORIGINAL newspaper, the Gazette of the United States (Philadelphia, PA) dated May 7, 1798. Inside page, prominent headline and full column printing of "A BILL CONCERNING ALIENS", the cornerstone of the Aliens and Sedition Acts that split the US in the late 1790's over Civil Liberties and the treatment of non American residents in the US. Does this sound vaguely familiar to what is going on in 2008 ??? The Alien and Sedition Acts were four bills passed in 1798 by the Federalists in the United States Congress Â--which was waging an undeclared naval war with France, later known as the Quasi-War Â--and signed into law by President John Adams . Proponents claimed the acts were designed to protect the United States from alien citizens of enemy powers and to stop seditious attacks from weakening the government. The Democratic-Republicans , like later historians, attacked them as being both unconstitutional and designed to stifle criticism of the administration, and as infringing on the right of the states to act in these areas. They became a major political issue in the elections of 1798 and 1800. One act Â-- the Alien Enemies Act
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