The Early Supreme Court Justices, the Sedition Act of 1798, and the Campaign against Dissent
by
Wendell Bird
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2016
The early Supreme Court justices wrestled with how much press and speech is protected by freedoms of press and speech, before and under the First Amendment, and with whether the Sedition Act of 1798 violated those freedoms. This book discusses the twelve Supreme Court justices before John Marshall,...