1From John Adams to Boston Patriot, 17 May 1809 (Adams Papers)
...of the Legislature: Witness the Alien and Sedition Laws. In all great and essential measures,...
2From John Adams to Boston Patriot, 26 May 1809 (Adams Papers)
...clamor against the alien law, and sedition law, both considered as levelled entirely...
3From John Adams to Boston Patriot, 29 May 1809 (Adams Papers)
It recommended an alien and sedition law....of an alien or sedition law. I recommended no such...
4From John Adams to Boston Patriot, 10 June 1809 (Adams Papers)
...President, as they had voted the alien and sedition law, and the army. What passed in that...
5Thomas Jefferson to Wilson Cary Nicholas, 13 June 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
to wit that the sedition law was unconstitutional and null, & that my obligation to...
6To James Madison from “Tammany,” 18 April 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
...logic could settle the constitutionality of the Sedition Law, about which JM “made no little...
7Aaron Hill to Thomas Jefferson, 24 May 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Callender, James Thomson; and sedition law [index entry]
8Charles Holt to Thomas Jefferson, 25 October 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
and Sedition Laws and American Civil Liberties
9From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 24 July 1811 (Adams Papers)
...Madison, and will only Serve to Shew how necessary a Sedition Law is.
10To James Madison from Henry Aborn and Others, ca. 28 October 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
Freedom’s Fetters: The Alien and Sedition Laws and American Civil Liberties