In particular, the Seditious Meetings Act prohibited groups of more than 50 people from assembling to discuss any political subject without prior permission from the sheriff or magistrate.

In 1795, the King's carriage was assaulted in the street, providing an excuse for Pitt to introduce the infamous Two Acts: the Seditious Meetings Act 1795, which prohibited unlicensed gatherings of over fifty people, and the Treasonable Practices Act, which greatly widened the legal definition of treason, making any assault on the constitution punishable by seven years ' transportation.

The government responded with the so-called Two Acts-an extension of the treason laws with the Treasonable Practices Act and also the repressive Seditious Meetings Act 1795 ; detention without trial had already been in force since 1794 when habeas corpus was suspended.

* The Seditious Meetings Prevention Act ( 60 Geo.

Perhaps the one most dangerous to liberty, the Seditious Meetings Prevention Act, was repealed in 1824.

Following the Peterloo Massacre and the government's introduction of a Seditious Meetings Prevention Bill, Coke accused the government of being " most strongly implicated in the events in Manchester ", saying that the meeting would have been peaceful had it not been " interfered with by the officious agents of authority ".

Fitzwilliam replied to Burke's first letter on 17 December: " Your letter came most opportunely to decide a wavering mind to the thing that was right " and he said of the Seditious Meetings Act 1795:

When Lord Liverpool's government passed the Seditious Meetings Act 1817, Fitzwilliam supported it, although only as a temporary measure: " I shall be sorry indeed should it pass permanently — it will operate an essential alteration in the constitution ".

His oratorical reputation was renewed the following year with a defense of the Seditious Meetings Act 1795.

The government reacted harshly, imprisoning leading Scottish radicals, temporarily suspending habeas corpus in England and passing the Seditious Meetings Act 1795 which meant that a license was needed for any meeting in a public place consisting of fifty or more people.

In response to the Gagging Acts ( Treason Act 1817 and Seditious Meetings Act 1817 ) passed by the British government in January 1817, Wooler started publishing The Black Dwarf as a new radical unstamped ( untaxed ) journal.

It had already passed the Power of Imprisonment Bill in February 1817, prompting the journalist William Cobbett to leave for America for fear of arrest for his pro-reform writing and publishing, and the Seditious Meetings Act in March of that year, as a direct response to the Blanketeers ' march.

The Sedition Act of 1798 and the Incorporation of Seditious Libel into First Amendment Jurisprudence.

* The Blasphemous and Seditious Libels Act ( or Criminal Libel Act ) ( 60 Geo.

The Crimes ( Repeal of Seditious Offences ) Amendment Act 2007 was passed on 24 October 2007, and entered into force on 1 January 2008.

The Free Press Crisis of 1800: Thomas Cooper's Trial for Seditious Libel ( University Press of Kansas ; 2011 ) 149 pages ; history of the landmark case involving the Sedition Act of 1798.

Seditious writers were also often held in the Bastille, although many of the more famous writers held in the Bastille during the period were in fact imprisoned for more anti-social, rather than strictly political, offences.

It has no royal patronage, for a Royal Charter has never been issued to the Buffaloes ; as in Masonry the Seditious and Riotous Assembly Acts of the late 1800s had a profound effect on Buffalo meetings, as it will have done on many clubs, societies and other bodies of the day. In order to show to the authorities that the Buffaloes were not subversive to the interest of the state, the Order decided to describe itself as the Loyal Order of Buffaloes.

It is probably to this time that another law is to be dated, the Novella Maioriani 12 known as De aurigis et seditiosis (" Concerning Charioteers and Seditious Persons "), to quell the disorders that sprang up during the chariot races.

* Novella Maioriani 12, De aurigis et seditiosis, " Charioteers and Seditious Persons ", whose text is lost.

Seditious, my Lord, the Petition could not be, for the matter of it must be seen to be strictly true.

Seditious words in writing are seditious libel.

Malkin included these contact details in a blog column entitled " Seditious Santa Cruz vs. America ".

As in Freemasonry, the Seditious and Riotous Assembly Acts of the late 19th century had a profound effect on Buffalo meetings, as it had on many clubs, societies, and other bodies of the day.

Seditious libel was a criminal offence under English common law.

After the establishment of the United States and the State of New Jersey, the community was formally incorporated as " Willingborough Township ", one of New Jersey's initial 104 townships, on February 21, 1798, by the New Jersey Legislature when it enacted " An Act incorporating the Inhabitants of Townships, designating their Powers, and regulating their Meetings ", P. L.

Plans to bring a Wal-Mart to the community were opposed by some residents, and opposition included two lawsuits by Edgewood residents ( one lawsuit alleged violations of the New Mexico Open Meetings Act ).

The merger came in the wake of an expansion of the Open Meetings Act provoked by the City Council's frustration with the opacity of CC-IH.

* The Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987

Margaret Thatcher's maiden speech was the successful introduction of the Public Bodies ( Admission to Meetings ) Act 1960.

He organised mass rallies known as " Monster Meetings " in order to pressure the British government to concede the return of the Irish Parliament, abolished in 1801 under the Act of Union, to Dublin.

14 of the Chicago ’ s City Council's 19 committees routinely violated the Illinois Open Meetings Act over a four-month period, the last four months of 2007, by not keeping adequate written records of their meetings.

Chicago City Council committees violated the Illinois Open Meetings Act and their own rules by meeting and taking actions without a quorum at least four times over the same four-month span.

PCCs were set up in 1921 by the Parochial Church Councils ( Powers ) Measure 1921 Act as a successor to the vestries or Vestry Meetings, which had had their civil functions removed during the nineteenth century in numerous acts, concluding in 1894 with the establishment of civil parishes.

The MDTA Board and its two active standing committees ( Capital Committee and Finance Committee ) have been found in violation of the Maryland Open Meetings Act a number of times between 2009 and 2012.

At the end of May 2005, in an amendment to the Public Entertainment and Meetings Act ( Chapter 257 ), nine categories of arts entertainment events including ' displays or exhibitions of art objects or paintings ' were exempted from having to apply for a Public Entertainment Licence from the Media Development Authority ( MDA ).

Soon after, police started an investigation on it as a case of a public display without permit, on the grounds that a complaint was received and that they may have been in violation of the Public Entertainment and Meetings Act, for which the maximum penalty is a fine not exceeding $ 10, 000.

Meetings were held around the country and in June, 1839 a large petition was presented to the House of Commons.

Moore is commemorated in several places: by a plaque on the house where he was born, by busts at The Meetings and Central Park, New York, and by a large bronze statue near Trinity College Dublin.

Representative Town Meetings used by some larger towns consist solely of a large number of members elected to office.

Minutes of the Society ’ s Meetings have been kept ( relatively ) faithfully in large leather-bound volumes since the first Meeting.

The book " Meetings with Solomon Marcus " ( Spandugino Publishing House, Bucharest, Romania, 2010, 1500 pages ), edited by Lavinia Spandonide and Gheorghe Păun for Marcus 85th Birthday, includes recollections by several hundred people, from a large variety of scientific and cultural fields and 25 countries ; it contains also a longer autobiography.

Yearly Meetings are named for a nation ( e. g., Canadian Yearly Meeting ), a region within a nation ( e. g., New England Yearly Meeting ), a state ( e. g. Illinois Yearly Meeting ), or a large city that serves as a hub ( e. g., Philadelphia Yearly Meeting ).

Meetings had been held with concert promoters with the aim of organizing a large event with a budget of over $ 100, 000.

Other Friends Meetings in the Section are relatively large with several thousand Friends.