I wish "Constitutionalists" would stop carping about the Alien and Sedition Acts.
They were unconstitutional, as they were outside the area of the enumerated jurisdiction of the federal government.
Why in the world would we ignore pertinent facts?
Even Patrick Henry, one of the original anti-federalists who opposed ratification of the Constitution, became a Federalist after its adoption. One of his last public acts was to argue against the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions and in defense of the Alien and Sedition Acts.
Are you even aware that they were the response to the very first "red scare" in our history?
Conservative worship of Thomas Jefferson has got to stop.
No. Not now. Not EVER!
Have you lacerated your Bible as well?
Since the man who WROTE the Constitution said they were unconstitutional, Henry's change of position is immaterial, as his opinion could not make them so.
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Are you even aware that they were the response to the very first "red scare" in our history?
Don't be insulting. I know exactly why the acts were passed.
So do you believe if people are frightened enough, the Constitution becomes moot?
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Have you lacerated your Bible as well?
Have you stopped beating your wife?
Just because Jefferson detested the politicalization of the church didn't mean he wasn't a Christian.
Thomas Jefferson- Letter To Dr. Benjamin Rush (April 21, 1803) :
In some of the delightful conversations with you in the evenings of 1798-99, and which served as an anodyne to the afflictions of the crisis through which our country was then laboring, the Christian religion was sometimes our topic; and I then promised you that one day or other I would give you my views of it. They are the result of a life of inquiry and reflection, and very different from that anti-Christian system imputed to me by those who know nothing of my opinions. To the corruptions of Christianity I am indeed opposed, but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian, in the only sense in which he wished anyone to be: sincerely attached to his doctrines in preference to all others, ascribing to himself every human excellence, and believing he never claimed any other.
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One would think someone who is so quick to question the historical knowledge of others would be aware of a few facts themselves.