Text Analysis: Alien and Sedition Acts

1. who is writing?
- The house of representatives of the U.S.A and Congress are the writers.

2. who is the audience?
- The audience is all people, citizens and aliens of the United States.

3. who do the writers represent?
- The writers represent the people of the United States because the representatives are representing all the different states and the people living in them.

4. what is being said, argued, and/or requested?
- The Alien Act document is talking about the illegal aliens in the United States. The document says that because the aliens do not legally belong in America that they will either be put in to prison or sent back to their homeland. The Sedition Act document is talking about what happens to people when they decide to go against the government. For the most part, there were very serious consequences for anyone who thought to go against the government because people were very fortunate to be living in the U.S. and going against the government just showed that those people were not thankful for what they had.

5. how is it being said, argued, and/or requested?
- The tone of these documents is a very serious one because the issues that are being dicussed are extremely important to the United States. If the people were to ignore the requests sent out by the government then the country would fall apart. So, the writers are very serious and concentrated on what they are saying and they want the people to really listen.

6. what proof and/or justification is being used to legitimize the request?
- These documents were written by the House of Representatives and Congress so therefore these documents are legitimate because the House of Representatives and Congress were very important groups of people and had very important jobs. So, the fact that those groups wrote the documents gives the documents justification.