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The Sedition Act automatically expired on March 3, 1801, so it did not outlast the Adams administration.  Upon taking office, Thomas Jefferson pardoned everyone convicted under it:

The Sedition Act automatically expired on March 3, 1801, so it did not outlast the Adams administration.  Upon taking office, Thomas Jefferson pardoned everyone convicted under it:

{{quotebox|I discharged every person under punishment or prosecution under the sedition law because I considered, and now consider, that law to be a nullity, as absolute and as palpable as if Congress had ordered us to fall down and worship a golden image.<ref name="NYT"/>

{{quotebox|I discharged every person under punishment or prosecution under the sedition law because I considered, and now consider, that law to be a nullity, as absolute and as palpable as if Congress had ordered us to fall down and worship a golden image.<ref name="NYT"/>}}

Congress repealed the Alien Friends Act.  In 1840, Congress repaid all fines levied under the Sedition Act.<ref name="NYT"/>

Congress repealed the Alien Friends Act.  In 1840, Congress repaid all fines levied under the Sedition Act.<ref name="NYT"/>

[[Category:Early National U.S.]]

[[Category:Early National U.S.]]

[[Category:First Amendment]]

[[Category:First Amendment]]