Opposition media and the Alien and Sedition acts

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The constitutional ink had the opportunity to cure properly, John Adams, the second president of the United States, had signed both the Alien and Sedition acts into law by July 14, 1798 and began deporting people or putting them in prison for speaking out against policies that rose from a commerce and alliance treaty brokered through New York Governor John Jay.

Keep in mind that The U.S. Capital was Philadelphia at that time. Also keep in mind that in the years following the Revolutionary war an ever-widening gulf was philosophically separating the Founding Fathers into two distinct camps: Adams, Washington, Jay and Hamilton were “federalists” who desired a powerful central government; Jefferson, Madison, Monroe and Franklin were “Republicans” who favored a system of governance that reserved power to the states, respectively, and the people.

Adams tyrannically suspended the 1st Amendment job function email list to squash opposition to the Jay Treaty. The Jay Treaty, brokered by New York Governor John Jay, committed the United States to a commerce and alliance treaty with Great Britain. The treaty, which violated the commerce and alliance treaty that had been signed with France in trade for its generous help during the Revolutionary War, was signed because the Adams administration decided to take sides with the British in a war that was brewing against France and Ireland.

The acts caused the imprisonment of those the government decided, without trial, were guilty of sedition and the deportation of French and Irish nationals living in the U.S. who, with the stroke of the presidential pen, were suddenly recognized as enemies of the state.