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Unconstitutional acts passed by Congress to control dissent and foreign influence
In the final years before the Act of Union,1707, Scotland and England argued over royal succession and came to the brink of war.
The threat of war, combined with the fear of foreign immigrants, prompted Congress to enact laws that placed severe restrictions on the newly won freedoms of Americans.
When in 1793 hundreds of Hessian soldiers were sent to fight the French Republic, they had no idea of the horrors awaiting them at the hands of their British Allies.
The Alien and Sedition Laws of 1798 were the first threat to constitutional guarantees in America and led to calls for state sovereignty over federal authority.
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