 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - Communism - 1948 - 522 pages
...Resollutions drawn by Madison declared that the acts exercise "a power not delegated by the Constitution, but, on the contrary, expressly and positively forbidden...other, ought to produce universal alarm because it is leveled against the right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Courts - 1964 - 954 pages
...session of Congress .... [The Sedition Act] exercises ... a power not delegated by the Constitution, but, on the contrary, expressly and positively forbidden...the only effectual guardian of every other right." 4 Elliot's Debates, supra, pp. 553-554. Madison prepared the Report in support of the protest. His... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Courts - 1964 - 948 pages
...session of Congress .... [The Sedition Act] exercises ... a power not delegated by the Constitution, but, on the contrary, expressly and positively forbidden...the only effectual guardian of every other right." 4 Elliot's Debates, supra, pp. 553-554. Madison prepared the Report in support of the protest. His... | |
 | Richard Hofstadter - History - 1969 - 306 pages
...fundamental of all rights: The power assumed by the Sedition Act, he said in the Virginia Resolutions, was "a power which more than any other ought to produce...communication among the people thereon, which has ever been deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right."33 The resistance to the attempt of the Federalists... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Judiciary - 1973 - 812 pages
...democracy. Its principal congressional proponent, James Madison. (33) wrote that the Amendment secures "that right of freely examining public characters and measures,...the only effectual guardian of every other right." (34) Madison conceived the freedom of the press as enabling journalists to make the kind of uninhibited... | |
 | Stephen Miller - Political Science - 1983 - 176 pages
...much the same point four years later when he said in the Virginia Resolution that the Sedition Act was "a power which more than any other ought to produce...of freely examining public characters and measures. . . ."•1-i As the opposition party, the Republicans had no choice but to argue against such governmental... | |
 | Geoffrey R. Stone, Richard A. Epstein, Cass R. Sunstein - Law - 1992 - 598 pages
...an Act ought, "more than any other, to produce universal alarm; because it is levelled against that right of freely examining public characters and measures,...deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right."9 With Madison's pronouncements in mind, we might think of the American tradition of free expression... | |
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Constitution; and the other of which acts exercises, in like manner, a power not delegated by the Constitution, but on the contrary, expressly and positively forbidden by one of the amendments thereto; a power which, more than any other, ought to produce... 
