Freedom's fetters
Subtitle: the Alien and Sedition laws and American civil liberties.
Series: Cornell studies in civil liberty
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1956
Place of publication: Ithaca, NY
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 464
Copyright date: 1956
Subjects: Alien and Sedition laws, 1798.
Notes: Bibliographical footnotes.
Table of contents: title: Part one : Retreat to repression : the enactment of the Alien and Sedition Laws.; title: Background for repression : America's half war with France and the Internal Security Legislation of 1798; title: Nativism, politics, and naturalization; title: Biography of a bill : the Alien Enemies Act; title: Aliens in peace and war : "An Act Concerning Aliens"; title: Xenophobia : the debates on the Alien Friends Law; title: The Sedition Law and the right of political opposition; title: Trumpets and alarms : preliminary debates on the Sedition Law; title: Congressional crucible : the forging of the sedition sword; title: Part two : The pattern of enforcement, 1789-1799.; title: The hunters and the hunted; title: Anticipation : Common Law indictments; title: The ordeal of the critical congressman : Matthew Lyon of Vermont; title: The Massachusetts cases and a comic footnote; title: Part three : The reign of witches : enforcement machinery and the election of 1800.; title: William Duane, the Aurora, and the Alien and Sedition Laws; title: President Adams, Thomas Cooper, and sedition; title: Sedition in the Old Dominion : James T. Callender and The Prospect Before Us; title: Two New England prosecutions; title: Sedition, subversion, and suppression : the New York cases; title: The Sedition Law, free speech, and the American political process; title: Appendix : The Alien and Sedition Laws