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This Day in Legal History: Sedition Act Passed
On this day in legal history, July 14, 1798, the United States Congress passed the Sedition Act, one of the most controversial laws in the nation’s early political history. Part of the broader Alien and Sedition Acts, this law made it a crime to publish “any false, scandalous and malicious writing” against the federal government, Congress, or the President with the intent to defame or bring them into disrepute. Ostensibly aimed at quelling foreign influence and internal subversion during the quasi-war with France, the Act was also a clear weapon…
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