Text of the Sedition Act

# The Sedition Act ( officially An Act in Addition to the Act Entitled " An Act for the Punishment of Certain Crimes against the United States "; ch.

Callender, already residing in Virginia and writing for the Richmond Examiner, was indicted under the Sedition Act.

He was indicted under the Sedition Act for an essay he had written in the Vermont Journal accusing the administration of " ridiculous pomp, foolish adulation, and selfish avarice ".

* Sedition Act of 1918

* Martin, James P. When Repression Is Democratic and Constitutional: The Federalist Theory of Representation and the Sedition Act of 1798.

* Stone, Geoffrey R. Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from The Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism ( 2004 )

It carried the words, " No Stamp Act, No Sedition Act, No Alien Bills, No Land Tax, downfall to the Tyrants of America ; peace and retirement to the President ; Love Live the Vice President ," referring to then-President John Adams and Vice President Thomas Jefferson.

* 1798 – The Sedition Act becomes law in the United States making it a federal crime to write, publish, or utter false or malicious statements about the United States government.

* 1918 – The Sedition Act of 1918 is passed by the U. S. Congress, making criticism of the government during wartime an imprisonable offense.

In retrospect, dicta from New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, acknowledges that, " lthough the Sedition Act was never tested in this Court, the attack upon its validity has carried the day in the court of history.

The Sedition Act of 1918 went even further, criminalizing " disloyal ," " scurrilous " or " abusive " language against the government.

* May 16 – The Sedition Act of 1918 is approved by the U. S. Congress.

The Naturalization Act of 1798, part of the Alien and Sedition Acts, was passed by the Federalists and extended the residency requirement from five to fourteen years.

[...] I must not however conceal from Your Excellency, that the Gentry, well disposed, and heartily desirous as they are, to serve the Crown, and to serve it with Zeal, when formed into regular Corps, do not relish commanding a bare Militia, they never were used to that Service under the French Government, ( and perhaps for good Reasons ) besides the sudden Dismission of the Canadian Regiment raised in 1764, without Gratuity or Recompence to Offices, who engaged in our Service almost immediately after the Cession of the Country, of taking any Notice of them since, tho ' they all expected half pay, is still uppermost in their Thoughts, and not likely to encourage their engaging a second Time in the same Way ; as to the Habitants or Peasantry, ever since the Civil Authority has been introduced into the Province, the Government of it has hung so loose, and retained so little Power, they have in a Manner emancipated themselves, and it will require Time, and discreet Management likewise, to recall them to their ancient Habits of Obedience and Discipline ; considering all the new Ideas they have been acquiring for these ten years past, can it be thought they will be pleased at being suddenly, and without Preparation embodied into a Militia, and marched from their Families, Lands, and Habitations to remote Provinces, and all the Horrors of War, which they have already experienced ; It would give appearance of Truth to the Language of our Sons of Sedition, at this very Moment busily employed instilling into their Minds, that the Act was passed merely to serve the present Purposes of Government, and in the full Intention of ruling over them with all the Despotism of their ancient Masters.

Yet, in 1918, before the bombings, President Woodrow Wilson had pressured the Congress to legislate the anti-immigrant, anti-anarchist Sedition Act of 1918 to protect wartime morale by deporting putatively undesirable political people.

After the Restoration the English Parliament passed the Sedition Act 1661, which declared that the Solemn League and Covenant was unlawful, was to be abjured by all persons holding public offices, and was to be burnt by the common hangman.

The Espionage Act of 1917 and the Sedition Act of 1918 gave the American authorities the right to close newspapers and jailed individuals for having anti-war views.

Other notable pieces of first session legislation include the Militia Act placing the armed forces unambiguously under the king's authority, and the Sedition Act.

The Alien and Sedition Acts were four bills passed in 1798 by the Federalists in the 5th United States Congress in the aftermath of the French Revolution and during an undeclared naval war with Britain and France, later known as the Quasi-War.

The Virginia Report of 1799 – 1800, Touching the Alien and Sedition Laws ; together with the Virginia Resolutions of December 21, 1798, the Debate and Proceedings thereon in the House of Delegates of Virginia, and several other documents illustrative of the report and resolutions

Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798

Breaking with Hamilton and what became the Federalist Party in 1791, Madison and Thomas Jefferson organized what they called the Republican Party ( later called by historians the Democratic-Republican Party ) He co-authored, along with Thomas Jefferson, the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions in 1798 to protest the Alien and Sedition Acts.

The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions ( or Resolves ) were political statements drafted in 1798 and 1799, in which the Kentucky and Virginia legislatures took the position that the federal Alien and Sedition Acts were unconstitutional.

Rather than purporting to nullify the Alien and Sedition Acts, the 1798 Resolutions called on the other states to join Kentucky " in declaring these acts void and of no force " and " in requesting their repeal at the next session of Congress ".

* In the United States, in 1798, Congress passed the Alien and Sedition Acts, which prohibited newspapers from publishing “ false, scandalous, or malicious writing ” against the government, including any public opposition to any law or presidential act.

The Supreme Court never ruled on the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798, whose speech provisions expired in 1801.

Jefferson and Madison were deeply upset by the unconstitutionality of the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 ; they secretly wrote the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, which called on state legislatures to nullify unconstitutional laws.

The chief political issues included opposition to the tax imposed by Congress to pay for the mobilization of the new army and the navy in the Quasi-War against France in 1798, and the Alien and Sedition Acts, by which Federalists were trying to stifle dissent, especially by Republican newspaper editors.

Although Federalists would attempt to restrict speech critical of the government with the Alien and Sedition Acts in 1798, after the Whiskey Rebellion, says Boyd, Federalists no longer challenged the freedom of assembly and the right to petition.

* June 18, 1798: Alien and Sedition Acts: (" An Act to establish a uniform rule of naturalization ") ( Naturalization Act of 1798 ), Sess.

* June 25, 1798: Alien and Sedition Acts: (" An Act concerning Aliens "), Sess.

* July 6, 1798: Alien and Sedition Acts: (" An Act respecting Alien Enemies "), Sess.

* July 14, 1798: Alien and Sedition Acts: (" An Act for the punishment of certain crimes against the United States ") ( Sedition Act ), Sess.

In November 1798, David Brown led a group in Dedham, Massachusetts in setting up a liberty pole with the words, " No Stamp Act, No Sedition Act, No Alien Bills, No Land Tax, downfall to the Tyrants of America ; peace and retirement to the President ; Love Live the Vice President ," referring to then-President John Adams and Vice President Thomas Jefferson.

He bitterly opposed the Jay Treaty in 1795, the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798, and the movement for war with France in 1798 – 99.

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.

In writing the Kentucky Resolutions, Jefferson warned that, " unless arrested at the threshold ," the Alien and Sedition Acts would " necessarily drive these states into revolution and blood.

In writing the Kentucky Resolutions, Jefferson warned that, " unless arrested at the threshold ", the Alien and Sedition Acts would " necessarily drive these states into revolution and blood.

In writing the Kentucky Resolutions, Jefferson warned that, " unless arrested at the threshold ," the Alien and Sedition Acts would " necessarily drive these states into revolution and blood.

A Sedition Ordinance had existed in the territory since 1970, which was subsequently consolidated into the Crime Ordinance in 1972.

The meaning of " seditious tendency " is defined in section 3 of the Sedition Act 1948 and in substance it is similar to the English common law definition of sedition, with modifications to suit local circumstances .< Ref > See for example James Fitzjames Stephen's " Digest of the Criminal Law " which states that under English law " a seditious intention is an intention to bring into hatred or contempt, or to exite disaffection against the person of His Majesty, his heirs or successors, or the government and constitution of the United Kingdom, as by law established, or either House of Parliament, or the administration of justice, or to excite His Majesty's subjects to attempt otherwise than by lawful means, the alteration of any matter in Church or State by law established, or to incite any person to commit any crime in disturbance of the peace, or to raise discontent or disaffection amongst His Majesty's subjects, or to promote feelings of ill-will and hostility between different classes of such subjects.

He opposed the Alien and Sedition Acts, federal intervention into the issue of slavery, and the rechartering of the national bank.

President Aguinaldo, while in retirement after the repeal of Sedition Act of 1907 in October 1919 which banned the display of the Philippine flag, greatly enlarged his home from 1919-1921, transforming it into a monument to flag and country.