 | Meg Jacobs, William J. Novak, Julian Zelizer - History - 2009 - 464 pages
...misdemeanor and subject to a fine and imprisonment. The second section concerned sedition, defined as "false, scandalous and malicious writing or writings against the government of the United States . . . with intent to defame" it or bring it into "contempt or disrepute" so as to excite "the hatred... | |
 | Murray Dry - Law - 2004 - 324 pages
...any person shall write, print, utter, or publish, or shall cause or procure to be written, printed, uttered or published, or shall knowingly and willingly...writing or writings against the government of the I hiked States, or either house of the said Congress or the said President, or to bring them, or either... | |
 | Mass media - 2004 - 542 pages
...by a $ 5000 fine and five years in prison, "if any person shall write, print, utter or publish ... any false, scandalous and malicious writing or writings...the United States, or either house of the Congress ... or the President ... with intent to defame ... or to bring them, or either of them, into contempt... | |
 | Julian E. Zelizer - Political Science - 2004 - 800 pages
...minority, the Sedition Act affected the citizen majority. It became a federal crime to utter or publish "any false, scandalous, and malicious writing or writings against the government of the United States or the President of the United States, with intent to defame ... or to bring them into contempt or... | |
 | Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred Dycus Miller, Jeffrey Paul - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2004 - 468 pages
...Administration, the Federalists passed the Sedition Act. It became a federal criminal offense to publish: any false, scandalous, and malicious writing or writings against the government of the United States, . . . with intent ... to stir up sedition within the United States, or to excite any unlawful combinations... | |
 | Robert E. Denton - Political Science - 244 pages
...States shall be liable to fines up to $5,000 and imprisonment up to five years. Any person writing, uttering, or publishing any false, scandalous and...malicious writing or writings against the government, the Congress, or the president shall be liable to fine up to $2,000 and imprisonment up to two years.... | |
 | John Spiller - History - 2005 - 356 pages
...shall write, print, utter or publish . . . any false, scandalous and malicious writing . . . against the government of the United States, or either house of the Congress ... or the President . . . with intent to defame ... or to bring them . . . into contempt or disrepute;... | |
 | James Grant - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 572 pages
...sorely tempted to employ this power, he never did. The Sedition Act made it a crime to speak or print "any false, scandalous, and malicious writing or writings...either House of the Congress of the United States, with intent to defame ... or to bring them . . . into contempt or disrepute."8 Now, John Adams had... | |
 | George P. Fletcher, Steve Sheppard - Law - 2005 - 696 pages
...by a $5,000 fine and five years in prison, "if any person shall write, print, utter or publish . . . any false, scandalous and malicious writing or writings...the United States, or either house of the Congress . . . , or the President . . . , with intent to defame ... or to bring them, or either of them, into... | |
 | Geneva Overholser, Kathleen Hall Jamieson - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2005 - 518 pages
...on July 14, 1798, the act made it a crime for any person "to write, print, utter[,] or publish . . . any false, scandalous and malicious writing or writings...the United States, or either house of the Congress or President . . . with intent to defame ... or to bring them, or either of them, into contempt or... | |
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... any false, scandalous and malicious writing or writings against the government of the United States... 
