Gender controversies, government censorship, immigration, accusations of foreign interference and more all featured in the nasty election of 1800 that pitted John Adams against Thomas Jefferson.
The most extreme accusations Democrats and Republicans hurl at one another today would be familiar to the Founding Fathers.
Each side fervently believed the other was “illiberal” and in league with foreign regimes antithetical to America’s principles.Under President Adams, Congress raised the number of years a foreigner would have to live in the United States before being naturalized as a citizen. Nowadays, administrations like President Biden’s lean on social media companies to do their censoring for them, as critics of COVID policy,
Jefferson had a more consistent state-centric philosophy of government than most politicians of his time, to say nothing of ours. As for his commitment to civil liberties, there too Jefferson was less than perfect — he opposed the Sedition Act but believed the same crime, “seditious libel,” should be recognized and punished at the state level.
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