...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 assist or aid in writing, uttering, or publishing, any false, scandalous, and malicious, writing or writings against the Government...

...Sedition Act was passed which made it a crime in the United States to "write, print, utter or publish. ..any false, scandalous and malicious writing or writings...the Congress of the United States or the President.. .with intent.. .to bring them. ..into contempt or disrepute." A court slapped a mechanic with eighteen...

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...the libel law in the Sullivan case. The act made it a crime to "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." As in the Alabama libel law, those charged under the act could defend themselves...

...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 the President . . . with intent to defame ... or to bring them, or either of them, into contempt...

...Sedition Act, in contrast, would fine or imprison anyone who "shall write, print, utter, or publish . . . any false, scandalous, and malicious writing or writings against the government of the United States." Madison pointed out that punishing malicious writings would inevitably limit the right of freely examining...

...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 US Congress, or the president shall be liable to fine up to $2,000 and imprisonment up to two years....

...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;...

...the previous five, before applying for citizenship. The Sedition Act reads in part as follows: ing any false scandalous and malicious writing or writings...government of the United States, or either house of Congress of the United States, or the President of the United States, with intent to defame the said...

...intended to give greater legal heft to such common Federalist sentiments, making it a crime to publish "false, scandalous, and malicious writing or writings, against the government of the United States," to bring in "into contempt or disrepute," or to "excite" against it "the hatred of the good people...