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The Alien and Sedition Laws were, they asserted, the beginning of monarchy, the foundation of absolutism.
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gutenberg.orgAlbert Beveridge: “The Alien and Sedition Laws were, they asserted, the beginning of monarchy, the foundation of absolutism.”
Editor's note · Context
Beveridge captures the Republican perspective that the Alien and Sedition Laws represented a dangerous shift towards monarchy and absolutism.
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