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To: Kaslin
Furthermore, I have a big problem with this statement as well:

The same men who created our Constitution turned around a few years later and passed the Alien and Sedition Acts, which punished people for insulting politicians, as though criticizing politicians was a threat to social order. Governments in Russia, China and Saudi Arabia still think that way.

Which of the Founding Fathers, that he speaks of, was around in 1918?

The Sedition Act of 1918 (Pub.L. 65–150, 40 Stat. 553, enacted May 16, 1918) was an Act of the United States Congress that extended the Espionage Act of 1917 to cover a broader range of offenses, notably speech and the expression of opinion that cast the government or the war effort in a negative light or interfered .

6 posted on 09/07/2016 6:53:46 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Robert DeLong

NO - the Alien and Sedition Acts were passed in 1798 by the Federalists. All were repealed by the Jeffersonian Democrats except the Alien Enemies Act, which was revised and recodified in 1918.


9 posted on 09/07/2016 7:00:31 AM PDT by AnAmericanMother (Ecce Crucem Domini, fugite partes adversae. Vicit Leo de Tribu Iuda, Radix David, Alleluia!)
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To: Robert DeLong
"A series of laws known collectively as the Alien and Sedition Acts were passed by the Federalist Congress in 1798 and signed into law by President Adams."

http://www.ushistory.org/us/19e.asp

18 posted on 09/07/2016 8:50:43 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (#NeverTrumpers: "commercial self-interest masquerading as ideological purity")
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