Editing Alien and Sedition Acts (section)

==Further reading==
* Berkin, Carol. ''A Sovereign People: The Crises of the 1790s and the Birth of American Nationalism'' (2017) pp 201–44. {{ISBN?}}
* {{cite journal|last1=Berns|first1=Walter|title=Freedom of the Press and the Alien and Sedition Laws: A Reappraisal|journal=Supreme Court Review|volume=1970|date=1970|pages=109–159|jstor=3108724|doi=10.1086/scr.1970.3108724|s2cid=147242863}}
* [[Wendell Bird|Bird, Wendell]]. ''Criminal Dissent: Prosecutions under the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798''. Harvard University Press, 2020. {{ISBN?}}
*Bird, Wendell. ''Press and Speech Under Assault: The Early Supreme Court Justices, the Sedition Act of 1798, and the Campaign Against Dissent.'' New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. {{ISBN|0190461624}}
* {{cite book|last1=Elkins |first1=Stanley M. |first2=Eric |last2=McKitrick |title=The Age of Federalism|date=1995}} {{ISBN?}}
*Halperin, Terri Diane. ''The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798: Testing the Constitution''. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. {{ISBN?}}
* {{cite journal|last=Jenkins |first=David |title=The Sedition Act of 1798 and the Incorporation of Seditious Libel into First Amendment Jurisprudence |journal=The American Journal of Legal History |volume=45 |issue=2 |date=April 2001| pages=154–213|jstor=3185366|doi=10.2307/3185366 }}
* {{cite journal|last=Martin |first=James P. |title=When Repression Is Democratic and Constitutional: The Federalist Theory of Representation and the Sedition Act of 1798 |journal=University of Chicago Law Review |volume=66 |issue=1 |date=Winter 1999 |pages=117–182|jstor=1600387|doi=10.2307/1600387 |url=https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4992&context=uclrev }}
* {{cite book |last=Miller |first=John Chester |title=Crisis in Freedom: The Alien and Sedition Acts |url=https://archive.org/details/crisisinfreedoma0000mill |url-access=registration |location=New York |publisher=Little Brown and Company |date=1951}}
* {{cite book |last=Rehnquist |first=William H. |title=Grand Inquests: The Historic Impeachments of Justice Samuel Chase and President Andrew Johnson |date=1994}}{{ISBN?}} Chase was impeached and acquitted for his conduct of a trial under the Sedition act.
* {{cite book|last=Rosenfeld |first=Richard N. |title=American Aurora: A Democratic-Republican Returns: The Suppressed History of Our Nation's Beginnings and the Heroic Newspaper That Tried to Report It |url=https://archive.org/details/americanaurorade00rose |url-access=registration |location=New York |publisher=St. Martin's Press |date=1997|isbn=978-0312150525 }}
* {{cite book |last=Smith |first=James Morton |title=Freedom's Fetters: The Alien and Sedition Laws and American Civil Liberties |url=https://archive.org/details/freedomsfettersa00smit |url-access=registration |date=1956|publisher=Cornell University Press|location=Ithaca NY}}
* {{cite book|last=Stone |first=Geoffrey R. |title=Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from The Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism |url=https://archive.org/details/periloustimesfre00ston |url-access=registration |date=2004|publisher=W.W. Norton & Co. |isbn=978-0393058802 }}
* {{cite book|first=Alan |last=Taylor |chapter=The Alien and Sedition Acts |editor-first=Julian E. |editor-last=Zelizer |title=The American Congress |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/americancongress00juli |chapter-url-access=registration |date=2004 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/americancongress00juli/page/63 63–76]|publisher=Houghton Mifflin |isbn=978-0618179060 }}
* [[Brenda Wineapple|Wineapple, Brenda]], "Our First Authoritarian Crackdown" (review of [[Wendell Bird]], ''Criminal Dissent: Prosecutions under the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798'', Harvard University Press, 2020, 546 pp.), ''[[The New York Review of Books]]'', vol. LXVII, no. 11 (2 July 2020), pp.&nbsp;39–40. Wineapple closes: "Jefferson said it all: 'I know not what mortifies me most, that I should fear to write what I think, or my country bear such a state of things.'"
* {{cite journal|last=Wright |first=Barry |title=Migration, Radicalism, and State Security: Legislative Initiatives in the Canada and the United States c. 1794–1804 |journal=Studies in American Political Development |volume=16 |issue=1 |date=April 2002 |pages=48–60|doi=10.1017/S0898588X02000032|doi-broken-date=November 6, 2024 |s2cid=145076899 }}
* Zelizer, Julian E., ed. ''The American Congress: The Building of Democracy'' (Houghton Mifflin. 2004) pp.&nbsp;63–76. {{ISBN?}}

===Primary sources===
* Randolph, J.W. ''[https://archive.org/details/virginiareportt00randgoog The Virginia Report of 1799–1800, Touching the Alien and Sedition Laws]; together with the Virginia Resolutions of December 21, 1798, the Debate and Proceedings thereon in the House of Delegates of Virginia, and several other documents illustrative of the report and resolutions''