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What is an example of what happens under the alien sedition acts?
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Man was arrested for criticizing the government
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What is the crime in British common law of criticizing the government under any circumstances?
Alien and sedition act. so, sedition.
Can a president arrest foreigners who critized his government under the alien and sedition act?
Yes they can
What laws did John Adams make?
Alien and Sedition Acts--- it was passed without his consent
President Jefferson did all of these except one Close the bank of the US. Repeal the Whiskey Tax. Stop prosecutions under Alien and Sedition acts. Establish a laissez-faire approach to government?
He didn't stop prosecutions under the Alien and Sedition acts.
What was an example of what happened under the alien and sedition acts?
Man was arrested for criticizing the government
What did John C Calhoun do during the alien and sedition acts?
John C Calhoun at the time of the Alien and Sedition acts was a teenager, just forming his political opinions growing up in South Carolina. John C Calhoun later in life, when he is Vice President under President Andrew Jackson, uses the Alien and Sedition Acts to justify South Carolina's nullification of the so-called "Tariffs of Abomination" in 1828.
What was the most obvious effect of the alien and sedition acts was limiting constitutional protection of?
Freedom of Speech
What happens if you put your gooey alien under a running tap?
It might live it might not, but i tried it and it lived!
Federalist programs and Thomas Jefferson?
Thomas Jefferson was not a fan of the government that had been created by the Federalists, and acted to dismantle much of it when he became President. For example, he repealed the 1801 Judiciary Act, and he set free those who had been jailed under the Alien and Sedition Acts.
Was Charles Evans Hughes a socialist?
No, Charles Evans Hughes was not a socialist. In 1920, he defended a group of socialists accused of sedition under the draconian Alien and Sedition Act and won an acquittal for them in court. Insisting people to the left of center receive the same constitutional protections as people to the right of center does not make one a socialist.
Union that was persecuted under the sedition act?
IWW
Which of these is a type of speech that is unprotected under the First Amendment?
Sedition
