The Alien Act was enacted by John Adams’s Federalist administration in preparation for a war that didn’t actually happen. In 1798, President John Adams signed a series of four bills designed to ...
On 27 July 1798, outside a tavern in Newark, New Jersey, Luther Baldwin and Clark Brown had a drunken conversation. Hearing guns firing a salute for president John Adams, it was reported that they ...
President Donald Trump has issued a proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act, an 18th-century law previously used when the US was at war. The law has been invoked three times before — most recently ...
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