Four separate laws constituted what is commonly referred to as the " Alien and Sedition Acts "

While government authorities prepared lists of aliens for deportation, many aliens fled the country during the debate over the Alien and Sedition Acts, and Adams never signed a deportation order.

The Alien and Sedition Acts were, however, never appealed to the Supreme Court, whose right of judicial review was not established until Marbury v. Madison in 1803.

In writing the Kentucky Resolutions, Jefferson warned that, " unless arrested at the threshold ," the Alien and Sedition Acts would " necessarily drive these states into revolution and blood.

" Chernow argues that neither Jefferson nor Madison sensed that they had sponsored measures as inimical as the Alien and Sedition Acts themselves.

Crisis in Freedom: The Alien and Sedition Acts ( 1951 )

Freedom's Fetters: The Alien and Sedition Laws and American Civil Liberties ( 1967 )

* Alan Taylor, " The Alien and Sedition Acts " in Julian E. Zelizer, ed., The American Congress ( 2004 ), 63 – 76

The Virginia Report of 1799 – 1800, Touching the Alien and Sedition Laws ; together with the Virginia Resolutions of December 21, 1798, the Debate and Proceedings thereon in the House of Delegates of Virginia, and several other documents illustrative of the report and resolutions

* Full Text of Alien and Sedition Acts

* Alien and Sedition Acts and Related Resources from the Library of Congress

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It carried the words, " No Stamp Act, No Sedition Act, No Alien Bills, No Land Tax, downfall to the Tyrants of America ; peace and retirement to the President ; Love Live the Vice President ," referring to then-President John Adams and Vice President Thomas Jefferson.

It was the most severe sentence up to then imposed under the Alien and Sedition Acts.

Breaking with Hamilton and what became the Federalist Party in 1791, Madison and Thomas Jefferson organized what they called the Republican Party ( later called by historians the Democratic-Republican Party ) He co-authored, along with Thomas Jefferson, the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions in 1798 to protest the Alien and Sedition Acts.

Madison and Jefferson secretly drafted the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions declaring the Alien and Sedition Acts to be unconstitutional and noted that " states, in contesting obnoxious laws, should ' interpose for arresting the progress of the evil.

The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions ( or Resolves ) were political statements drafted in 1798 and 1799, in which the Kentucky and Virginia legislatures took the position that the federal Alien and Sedition Acts were unconstitutional.

The resolutions opposed the federal Alien and Sedition Acts, which extended the powers of the federal government.

The Alien and Sedition Acts were asserted to be unconstitutional, and therefore void, because they dealt with crimes not mentioned in the Constitution:

Rather than purporting to nullify the Alien and Sedition Acts, the 1798 Resolutions called on the other states to join Kentucky " in declaring these acts void and of no force " and " in requesting their repeal at the next session of Congress ".

" The 1799 Resolutions did not assert that Kentucky would unilaterally refuse to enforce the Alien and Sedition Acts.

Rather, the 1799 Resolutions to declared that Kentucky " will bow to the laws of the Union " but would continue " to oppose in a constitutional manner " the Alien and Sedition Acts.

Individual movies from Alien to Midnight Run were pastiched.

Ken Uston reviewed 32 games in his book Ken Uston's Guide to Buying and Beating the Home Video Games in 1982, and rated some of the Channel F's titles highly ; of these, Alien Invasion and Video Whizball were considered by Uston to be " the finest adult cartridges currently available for the Fairchild Channel F System.

Taylor rejoiced in what the House of Delegates had made of Madison's draft: it had read the claim that the Alien and Sedition Acts were unconstitutional as meaning that they had " no force or effect " in Virginia – that is, that they were void.

However, in a later ( 2006 ) interview, the director remarked that he had been unhappy about Alien: The Director's Cut, feeling that the original was " pretty flawless " and that the additions were merely a marketing tool.

* The Roswell Invaders play in the Pecos League of Professional Baseball Clubs, The Invaders were the regular season and post season champions, they wear lime green uniforms to represent their Alien heritage.

In May 2012, Ridley Scott confirmed that the replicants were biological in nature, and contrasted them to the androids in the Alien series.

* In Ben 10: Alien Force, Ben mentioned about as well as performed a Savate move when he and Gwen were practicing on the punching bag.

Jefferson and Madison were deeply upset by the unconstitutionality of the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 ; they secretly wrote the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, which called on state legislatures to nullify unconstitutional laws.

Likewise, maze games in the arcades were another precursor to puzzle games ( see 1979's Heiankyo Alien, for example ).

The chief political issues included opposition to the tax imposed by Congress to pay for the mobilization of the new army and the navy in the Quasi-War against France in 1798, and the Alien and Sedition Acts, by which Federalists were trying to stifle dissent, especially by Republican newspaper editors.

Meanwhile, the Republicans accused Federalists of destroying republican values, not to mention political support from immigrants, with the Alien and Sedition Acts, some of which were later declared unconstitutional after their expiration by the Supreme Court ; they also accused Federalists of favoring Britain in order to promote aristocratic, anti-republican values.

On July 22, 1948, Hall and 11 other Communist Party leaders were indicted under the Alien Registration Act, popularly called the Smith act, on charges of " conspiracy to teach and advocate the overthrow of the U. S. government by force and violence ," although his conviction was based on Hall's advocacy of Marxist thought.

There were allegations that the film was plagiarized from a 1967 script, The Alien, by celebrated Indian Bengali director Satyajit Ray.

In 2006, the events surrounding the release of the footage were adapted as a feature film, Alien Autopsy, a British comedy directed by Jonny Campbell and written by William Davies.

Alien artifacts, supposedly items recovered from the crash site, were depicted in the footage.

Those Alien Priories that had functioning communities were forced to pay large sums to the king, while those that were mere estates were confiscated and run by royal officers, the proceeds going to the king's pocket.

Some of the Alien Priories were allowed to become naturalised ( for instance Castle Acre Priory ), on payment of heavy fines and bribes, but for the rest their fates were sealed when Henry V dissolved them by act of Parliament in 1414.