Isle of Palms, South Carolina. Isle of Palms is a city in Charleston County, South Carolina, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population of the city was 4,133. Isle of Palms is a barrier island on the South Carolina coast.
The goal of the Alien and Sedition Acts is to stop immigration into the United States. It was passed in 1798 by the Federalists and signed by President John Adams. It is used to protect the United States from foreign citizens that can initialize seditious attacks that lead to the weakening of the government. Comments.
Alien & Sedition Acts. 1  The Sedition Act effectively made it a crime for any person to criticize the President, the Congress or the Government of the United States. 2  The Alien Act empowered President Adams to arrest, detain, and deport any non-citizen he found to be a danger to the security of the nation.