The Alien and Sedition Acts were a set of four laws passed by the United States Congress in 1798, in anticipation of a war with France. They made it more difficult for someone to become a US citizen, legalized the president imprisoning and deporting non-citizens who were considered dangerous or from a hostile country, and criminalized making false statements against the federal government. The federalists claimed that these laws would protect the country during a de facto war against France.
The acts, made quickly in the wake of the XYZ Affair, put limits on foreigners and stifled press criticism of the government. These targeted the French and Irish immigrants, increasing the waiting period to obtain naturalization from five to fourteen years and authorizing the expulsion of foreigners who were considered dangerous.
Although the Alien and Sedition Acts were adverse to Thomas Jefferson and others, they helped push Jefferson into the presidency. Some were repealed and others expired in 1802.
In philosophy, empiricism is a theory that suggests knowledge only from from sensory experience. It holds that knowledge can only gotten through empirical method which forms part of the scientific method that has to do with verification of hypotheses through experiments. Empiricism points to evidence and experimental research in determining knowledge and not innate ideas or intuition which are unverifiable.
When a human is at stage 0, alpha waves are present and as a person gets more alert and attentive there are beta activities present which consist of irregular, low amplitude waves. When the person begins to feel drowsy it means he or she is about to enter stage 1, there the brain will show theta activities which is the switch from being alert to drowsy, leading to stage 2.
