I've written about the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. Fun trivia: When the administration that signed it tried to stop what it xenophobically called an "invasion" of French immigrants, James Madison argued deportation was unconstitutional absent war: repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol120/i... - ThreadSky

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nikobowie.bsky.social • 3 days ago

I've written about the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. Fun trivia: When the administration that signed it tried to stop what it xenophobically called an "invasion" of French immigrants, James Madison argued deportation was unconstitutional absent war: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol120/iss7/3/

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issabailot.bsky.social•3 days ago

Lololol

jmwallach.bsky.social•3 days ago

Madison was too involved to know what the constitution meant which really comes from lawyers cosplaying as historians doing statistics with incomplete samples.