Reply #5: The Alien and Sedition Acts were opposed by the Democrats

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Technically the opposition was the Democratic-Republicans and the party that supported the acts was the Federalists, but the groups that ended up being Democrats can trace themselves back to the Democratic-Republican Party, and while the Present Day Republicans try to do the same, the main groups that Support the Republicans today supported the Federalists in the 1790s.

On the other hand the Militia Act of 1792 was supported by the Democratic-Republicans and the main leader of the Federalist, Alexander Hamilton, opposed how it was written, Hamilton supported something much like today's National Guard then a universal militia as seen in his comments on the Militia in the Federalist Papers.