Re:United States Health Care Reform: Progress to Date and Ne...
by dragonwriter on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @03:51PM
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> Those legislation mainly affected people who weren't US citizens, though.
Certainly the Sedition Act's repression of free speech was not restricted to, nor primarily targeting, non-citizens; it principally targeted domestic dissent. (The first prosecution under that act -- or any of the Alien and Sedition Acts -- was of an opposition-party Congressman for writings critical of the administration.)
Not that "worst for American citizens" was the original claim, anyway.
Certainly the Sedition Act's repression of free speech was not restricted to, nor primarily targeting, non-citizens; it principally targeted domestic dissent. (The first prosecution under that act -- or any of the Alien and Sedition Acts -- was of an opposition-party Congressman for writings critical of the administration.)
Not that "worst for American citizens" was the original claim, anyway.