Author: Library of Congress. Division of Bibliography
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Category : Alien and Sedition laws, 1798
Languages : en
Pages : 34

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Author: David Owen Powell
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Category : Alien and Sedition laws, 1798
Languages : en
Pages : 330

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Languages : en
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The Napoleon Series offers access to information about and the text of the U.S. Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798. The four laws addressed the legal status of aliens and defamation against the president. The underlying purposes of the laws were to act against politically active, anti-Federalist foreigners and to quiet criticisms against the administration of U.S. President John Adams (1735-1826).

Author: John Chester Miller
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Category : Alien and Sedition laws, 1798
Languages : en
Pages : 270

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Thomas Jefferson touched on throughout; pp. 169-81 focus on his role and Madison's in drawing up the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, which offered the most forceful statement of the constitutional objections to the acts. Argues that their failure strengthened the Federalists' belief that public opinion was with them.--Frank Shuffelton.

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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 472

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Author: Geoffrey R. Stone
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393058802
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 758

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Geoffrey Stone's Perilous Times incisively investigates how the First Amendment and other civil liberties have been compromised in America during wartime. Stone delineates the consistent suppression of free speech in six historical periods from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the Vietnam War, and ends with a coda that examines the state of civil liberties in the Bush era. Full of fresh legal and historical insight, Perilous Times magisterially presents a dramatic cast of characters who influenced the course of history over a two-hundred-year period: from the presidents—Adams, Lincoln, Wilson, Roosevelt, and Nixon—to the Supreme Court justices—Taney, Holmes, Brandeis, Black, and Warren—to the resisters—Clement Vallandingham, Emma Goldman, Fred Korematsu, and David Dellinger. Filled with dozens of rare photographs, posters, and historical illustrations, Perilous Times is resonant in its call for a new approach in our response to grave crises.

Author: New York Public Library. Research Libraries
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 566

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Author: Public Affairs Information Service
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 476

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Author: New York Public Library. Reference Department
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 1104

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Author: Joseph J. Ellis
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393068277
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 358

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An absorbing, insightful profile of the revolutionary leader, president, husband, and father from one of our best historians, now in a beautiful new package. John Adams was unique among the nation’s founders in leaving a record of his most intimate thoughts and feelings. Instinctively candid and politically incisive, Adams offers the clearest view of the ambitions and principles that drove the revolutionary generation. Passionate Sage offers a brilliant introduction to the second president: his politics, his affinities for family and friendship even with political opponents like Jefferson, and his enduring significance. “Ellis’s palpable affection lends a pleasing glow to his profile of Adams, which is why Passionate Sage is his best book.”—Judith Shulevitz, New York Times Book Review “Impassioned and erudite. . . . A captivating portrait of this Massachusetts native as a wonderfully contrary genius possessed of an uncommon moral intelligence and farsighted political wisdom.”—Michiko Kakutani, New York Times “The best portrait of a Revolutionary-era statesman.”—Evan Thomas, Wall Street Journal