 | Michael Kent Curtis - History - 2000 - 544 pages
...fundamental criticism: the Sedition Act should "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."85 The only other state to pass a critical resolution was Kentucky. Other state legislatures... | |
 | Garrett Ward Sheldon - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 324 pages
...deliberation on public policy and a requisite to an informed electorate voting for candidates. "It is leveled against the right of freely examining public characters...measures, and of free communication among the people . . . which has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right" (6:328-29).... | |
 | David Kretzmer, Francine Kerschman Hazan, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung - Political Science - 2000 - 304 pages
...whole system created by the Constitution, the republican form of government. The Act, Madison said, was 'levelled against the right of freely examining public...characters and measures, and of free communication thereon, which has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right.' In America,... | |
 | Cass R. Sunstein - Computers - 2001 - 252 pages
...Sedition Act ought, "more than any other, to produce universal alarm; because it is levelled against that right of freely examining public characters and measures,...the only effectual guardian of every other right."" ' In this way Madison saw "free communication among the people" not as an exercise in consumer sovereignty,... | |
 | Thomas R. Hensley - History - 2001 - 420 pages
...Sedition Act ought, "more than any other, to produce universal alarm; because it is leveled against that right of freely examining public characters and measures,...the only effectual guardian of every other right." In this way Madison saw "free communication among the people" not as an exercise in consumer sovereignty,... | |
 | Paul Finkelman - History - 2002 - 488 pages
...fundamental criticism: the Sedition Act should "produce universal alarm, because it is levelled against that right of freely examining public characters and measures,...the only effectual guardian of every other right." Charles Black calls such arguments structural: a conclusion drawn from how republican governments have... | |
 | Lee C. Bollinger, Geoffrey R. Stone - Law - 2003 - 348 pages
...Sedition 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."12 In this way Madison saw "free communication among the people" not as an exercise in consumer... | |
 | Oliver J. Thatcher - History - 2004 - 476 pages
...; 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...other ought to produce universal alarm, because it is leveled against the right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication... | |
 | Mass media - 2004 - 542 pages
...session of Congress ... [The Sedition Act] exercises ... 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... | |
 | Murray Dry - Law - 2004 - 324 pages
...|sedition| exercises, in like manner, a power not delegated by the (^institution, but, on the contmry, expressly and positively forbidden by one of the amendments...other, ought to produce universal alarm, because it is leveled against the right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication... | |
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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... 
