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Which president signed the Alien and Sedition Acts into law thereby making it illegal to publish or say "false, scandalous and malicious" statements about the government with the "intent to defame" Congress or the president?
a) George Washington b) John Adams
c) Thomas Jefferson d) James Madison

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