Essay On Alien And Sedition Dbq

In 1798 the Alien and Sedition act was made. This act was completely against the constitution in all ways that you look at it. People might disagree because they did not want to many people coming into the country that could hurt it. I do agree with this but not every person that come to the country didn’t want to do bad things. Some people come to live a new lifestyle because their old country was not the best. This is why this act was one of the worst ones and should have never been made. Its 1798 and you are ten years old and your parents are getting thrown out of the country. Then they hold you back and give you the choice to go or stay. What would you say to this. “No person shall be deprived of liberty without due process of law”. this is say that a person a person has the right till it is take away by the court. This was happening back in 1798 people were not getting to go to court, they were just thrown out of the country even if they were born there.so
I agree you should not but they need to build off what the people say. ”dangerous to the public safety.” i do not get get why the government made this law. They say when you would talk bad on them it would put the public in danger. The only thing about this act that was dangerous was throwing people out of the country. This is why the alien and sedition acts were bad to the people and looked bad on the country. As you can see this was a very bad choice that america made. It would not let people in the country and was also kicking people out of it. Some kids had to make tough decisions that could change there whole life. People could not say anything about the government in fear of being arrested for what you say and not be able to go to court and have a trial. As you can see john adams did not make the best choices when he was the president but if not for him america would not have seen what could