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Unconstitutional acts passed by Congress to control dissent and foreign influence

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.

As America entered into its undeclared war with France, decisions made by the Federalist leadership in Washington assured the eventual destruction of their own party.

Following the declaration of war, Congress passed numerous acts designed to increase the president's war powers over virtually every aspect of American society.

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.

A Newspaper and Pamphlet publisher, accused of sedition in London, flees to Boston and helps establish that city's reputation as America's "Cradle of Journalism".

Australia is set to introduce the harshest internet censorship laws in the free world. Australia already has the free world's harshest sedition laws.

The history of the first amendment right of free speech goes back to Colonial America, before it was codified by James Madison and Thomas Jefferson in the Bill of Rights.

Our founders based their commitment to a free press on their knowledge and personal experience with a society that strictly prohibited it.

Who's more patriotic, 2008 presidential candidate John McCain or Barack Obama, America's new president-elect?

The following review was written a few short months before Break Room Live with Marc Maron & Sam Seder was canceled, foreshadowing a certain fate.

While John Adams is today remembered as having been a great President, his status was once mired by his association with the controversial policies of other Federalists.

The response of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison to the passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts

The media has said that the partisan bickering in the United States has reached new levels of vitriol, but the war has been raging since the nation was founded.

Press censorship and attacks on newspapers began with the founding of the nation and always involved political ideals or social controversies like abolition of slavery.

Learned and thoughtful, John Adams was as much a political philosopher as he was a politician and the second President of the United States.

During the years immediately leading up to the 19th century, America suddenly found standing at the doorstep of war with a leading European power.

The presidential election of 1800 was the first truly disputed election in our nation's history, and became a defining event in shaping the United States Constitution.

Students that memorize the presidents by their term in office can more easily relate key events and concepts in American History and better understand cause and effect.

Woodrow Wilson had no choice but to send America to war in 1917, though he did so in hopes that he could perhaps prevent all such wars in the world's future.

James Madison retires to Virginia but returns to politics when John Adams and his Federalists threaten the freedoms that were guaranteed in the Bill of Rights.

U.S. Marshals began serving the United States in the 18th century and continues to perform their duties today.

Abigail Adams' values regarding domesticity, women's rights, slavery and politics were shaped by society but changed to leave her revolutionary ideals incomplete.

The "Revolution of 1800" marked the first time in U.S. history that a faction in power voluntarily stepped down after losing a popular election.

Renegade military officers walked out of a court hearing on their 2003 Oakwood Hotel mutiny, took over the Peninsula Hotel, and demanded President Arroyo's resignation.

The permeation of blogs across Asia not only started a digital revolution; it turned passive citizens to active bloggers whose opinions politicians consider.

Censorship is often practiced by those in power to limit social discourse by those who disagree with them.

In the early years of the Republic, factionalism over Constitutional interpretation divided Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson resulting in the birth of parties.

For serious researchers of Biblical history, early Jewish history and life in Roman Judea, between 200 BCE and 75 CE, the works of Flavius Josephus are an essential tool.

Pastor Steven L. Anderson started his Tempe, Arizona based Faithful Word Baptist Church on Christmas Day of 2005. Anderson is also the face of hatred and bigotry.

The birth of Jesus according to the gospels of Matthew and Luke, and the significance of Nativity.

Gandhi was the leader of the Indian Nationalist Movement and is widely considered the father of his country. He developed a non-violent way to redress wrongs.

In custody for leading a 2003 mutiny, Trillanes was elected to the Senate last May, then led the Nov 29th coup attempt. His escapades have precedents in the Philippines.

Some of the great US presidents have entered office with great resumes. So have some of the failures and mediocre ones. Does experience matter and, if so, what kind?

Anti-communists efforts in the United States following World War I.

The U.S. government has honored its people's civil liberties through most of its history, allowing some serious infringements in time of actual or perceived peril.

The embattled Gambian government recently shocked the world by sanctioning mass kidnappings disguised as witch hunting.

The Nullification Crisis resulted from federal passage of two protective tariffs, prompting men like John C. Calhoun to assert state sovereignty over federal law.

Presidents of the United States have largely been chosen for what they could do for the economy and society. Some notable elections have turned on events far from home.

This new book is an inspiring look at one of the greatest American politicians. Mr. John Q. Adams is shown as the extraordinary personification of genuine Civil Service!

Biography of Mother Jones (nee Mary Harris), iconic American labor activist and organizer whom the Senate declared "the most dangerous woman in America".

Detention, prosecution, and punishment of rebels in Philippine coup attempts, including the last one, appear to be a joke, but implications are too serious to be funny.

From his essays on the handicapped to multiculturalism to his opposition to WWI, Randolph Bourne represents the young intellectual of the progressive era.

How can an artist "grow" in a culture he may despise, or at least feel at odds with? Two poets and a painter from different worlds had similar answers.

For almost a century and a half the Court of Star Chamber ruled over all-classes of England, though both its purpose and operation were never fully clear.

After World War I, movies began to replace Vaudeville as America's favorite form of entertainment.

America's third president was a follower of the European philosophy of enlightenment, and a staunch believer in states rights.

Born and raised a traditional New England Congregationalist, John Adams nevertheless came to see public religion as a great danger to the new nation.

Many think Britain's favourite figure of hate might have been framed.

Emulating strategies of passive resistance, German students published radical leaflets rejecting fascism and militarism, and calling for justice during WW II.