Alien and Sedition Acts 
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SOURCE: New York Review of Books
7/2/2020
Our First Authoritarian Crackdown (Review)
by Brenda Wineapple
Wendell Bird argues that the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 were used more broadly than historians have recognized, and reflect a shakier foundation of free speech in the early Republic.
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10-30-16
When is Dissent Treason?
by Terri Diane Halperin
It’s a question we’ve been asking since the birth of the Republic.
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