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Alien and Sedition Acts (view source)
Revision as of 16:58, November 14, 2009
, 16:58, November 14, 2009Fines repaid
The Sedition Act automatically expired on March 3rd, 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 3rd, 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Congress shortly thereafter drastically amended the Alien Enemies Act and repealed the Alien Friends Act. In 1840, Congress repaid all fines levied under the Sedition Act<ref name="NYT"/>.
==References==
==References==