Attacks on the Freedom of Speech are nothing new. Benjamin Franklin warned about them as far back as 1722. And the Sedition Act of 1798 was a direct assault.
Learn the stories of some of the people arrested and prosecuted under one of the worst federal acts in history.
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- John Adams: From Revolutionary to Monarchist?
- Transcript of Alien and Sedition Acts (1798)
- Sedition Act Trials (pdf)
- Benjamin Franklin 1722
- The thin-skinned president who made it illegal to criticize his office
- Luther Baldwin
- Anthony Haswell
- Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Smith Adams, 22 July 1804
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