The Alien and Sedition Acts was enacted by John Adams’s Federalist administration in preparation for a war that didn’t ...

What is the Alien Enemies Act? It's an 18th-century law that allows the president to detain or deport immigrants from ...

President John Adams regretted signing the Alien & Sedition Acts.  Imagine what he would say today if he learned that one of ...

The Congressional record clearly shows the Founding generation understood the Alien Enemies Act as providing broad powers to the president.

From the column: "Trump’s and the Republican Party’s apparent desire to control the citizenry parallels that of the ...

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 ...

The Alien Enemies Act is one of the laws enacted as part of the Alien and Sedition Acts in 1798 under President John Adams and the Federalist-controlled Congress. At the time, the U.S. was ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. (THE CONVERSATION) When John Adams became the second president of the United States in 1797 ...