Domestic Policy
- The Alien Act: enabled the president to deport any resident alien he believed to be dangerous to the United States;
- The Alien Enemies Act: enabled the president to arrest and deport any alien whose home country was at war with the US (an act aimed directly at France);
- The Naturalization Act: extended the length of residency required for an alien to become a US citizen from five to 14 years; would prevent immigrants from voting against incumbent Federalist office-holders;
- The Sedition Act: made it illegal to publish false, scandalous, or malicious material against the government; president and justice department had wide latitude to define those terms so that this act was close to violating the First Amendment.