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The Free Press Crisis of 1800: Thomas Cooper's Trial for Seditious Libel (Landmark Law Cases and American Society)
The Free Press Crisis of 1800 Thomas Cooper's Trial for Seditious Libel - Landmark Law Cases and American Society
Author: Peter Charles Hoffer
The far-reaching Sedition Act of 1798 was introduced by Federalists to suppress Republican support of French revolutionaries and imposed fines and imprisonment "if any person shall write, print, utter or publish . . . scandalous and malicious writing or writings against the government of the United States." Such a broadly and loosely defined off...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780700617654
ISBN-10: 0700617655
Publication Date: 2/22/2011
Pages: 168
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Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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