Alien and Sedition Act v. Patriot Act

I did not know that John Adams was so decisive in the passing of the Alien and Sedition Acts. When I was reading the section about the act I could not help finding several parallels between the Alien and Sedition Acts and the Patriot Act of today. While the Alien and Sedition Act may deny American citizens their first amendment right to freedom of speech, the Patriot Act denies Americans their fourth amendment right, protecting them against unlawful searches and seizures without a warrant. Recently the federal courts have ruled two provisions of the Patriot Act illegal citing that they violate the fourth amendment. In the reading there is a section where Thomas Jefferson and James Madison tried to convince the state legislators that the Alien and Sedition Acts were unconstitutional, but the states simply replied that it was not their place to determine wither the act was unconstitutional. This just goes to show that history repeats itself. Adam's administration passed a act in a time of war that supposedly protected the American citizens and Bush also passed a similar act in a time of war.