ACTS OF SEDITION

a set of four laws, formally known as the Alien and Sedition Acts, passed by the US Congress in 1798 in response to the threat of war with France. Designed to destroy the political faction which expressed sympathy for France, the laws lengthened the residency requirement for citizenship, empowered the president to expel "dangerous" aliens and prohibited spoken or written criticism of the government. —SHSBC Binder 33 Approved Glossary

a set of four laws, formally known as the Alien and Sedition Acts, passed by the US Congress in 1798 in response to the threat of war with France. Designed to destroy the political faction which expressed sympathy for France, the laws lengthened the residency requirement for citizenship, empowered the president to expel "dangerous" aliens and prohibited spoken or written criticism of the government. See also Congress in this glossary. One of the first things they passed after they revolted for the rights of man and everything else - you know they revolted to make the individual free - the first thing they passed, I think, were the Acts of Sedition by which if you put the slightest criticism of anybody that was friends of theirs in the paper, you could be clapped in jail forevermore.