COM 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Alien And Sedition Acts, William Cobbett, Seditious Libel

• School: University of Miami
• Department: Communication
• Course: COM 250
• Professor: Terilli Samuel

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2: america"s first reign of witches, the alien and sedition acts of 1798 consisted of four parts, 1. The naturalization act of june 18, 1798, changed from five to fourteen years the period of residence required for citizenship (repealed in 1802: 2. The alien act of june 25, 1798, permitted the president to expel from the country any alien whom he believed dangerous to the peace and safety of the. The sedition act of july 14, 1798, which included punishment for any false, scandalous, and malicious writings against the government: the party press, the federalists enacted, over the intense opposition of the republicans, the. Today"s press cannot possibly match that of the late 1790s, with its benjamin franklin bache and william duane of the philadelphia aurora and james callender, on one side, and its william. Cobbett of porcupine"s gazette and john ward fenno of the gazette of the.