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Which time and which parts!? Several parts of the acts have always been found to be perfectly constitutional and the sedition section has been re-enacted during WWI under the so-called progressive Democrat Woodrow Wilson!.

There were actually four separate laws making up what is commonly referred to as the "Alien and Sedition files "

1!. The Naturalization Act (officially An Act to Establish a Uniform Rule of Naturalization) extended the duration of residence required for aliens to become citizens to 14 years!. Enacted June 18, 1798, with no expiration date, it was repealed in 1802!.
2!. The Alien Friends Act (officially An Act Concerning Aliens) authorized the president to deport any resident alien considered "dangerous to the peace and safety of the United States!." "The Naturalization and Alien acts of 1798 were aimed largely at Irish immigrants and French refugees critical of the Adams administration"!.[citation needed] Enacted June 25, 1798, with a two year expiration date!.
3!. The Alien Enemies Act (officially An Act Respecting Alien Enemies) authorized the president to apprehend and deport resident aliens if their home countries were at war with the United States of America!. Enacted July 6, 1798, with no expiration date, it remains in effect today as 50 U!.S!.C!. ยง 21-24!. At the time, war was considered likely between the U!.S!. and France!.
4!. The Sedition Act (officially An Act for the Punishment of Certain Crimes against the United States) made it a crime to publish "false, scandalous, and malicious writing" against the government or its officials!. Enacted July 14, 1798, with an expiration date of March 3, 1801!.

There is still a naturalization process forcing people wishing to become US citizens to wait a set amount of years living in residence to become citizens!.

Enemy aliens are detained by every country in the world when at war and then deported back to their home country!.

Jefferson disliked the Sedition Act because as a lover of the French Revolution, he brought many of the most vicious anarchists to America and gave them loans to start up newspapers as long as they made vicious attacks upon the current President!. After the (first) Sedition Act expired at the beginning of his first disastrous term in office, Jefferson remarked to his Secretary of State James Madison how he had changed his mind and understood how useful the Sedition Act could be against his own enemies that were attacking him in print!.

Wilson used the (2nd) Sedition Act to arrest anyone who said anything bad about entering World War I!.

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