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" ... into contempt or disrepute ; or to excite against them, or either or any of them, the hatred of the good people of the United States... "
The History of the United States of America - Page 227
by Richard Hildreth - 1879
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The Life of the Law: The People and Cases that Have Shaped Our Society, from ...

Alfred H. Knight - Law - 1998 - 294 pages
...United States, or either house of the Congress, or the President . . . with intent to defame ... or bring them . . . into contempt or disrepute; or to...the hatred of the good people of the United States." In prosecutions under the act, juries were to decide both the law and the facts, and the maximum penalties...
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Sentimental Bodies: Sex, Gender, and Citizenship in the Early Republic

Bruce Burgett - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 222 pages
...them, or either of them, into contempt or disrepute; or to excite against them, or either or any of them, the hatred of the good people of the United States, or to stir up sedition within the United States . . . such person . . . shall be punished by a fioe not exceeding two thousand...
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American Aurora: A Democratic-Republican Returns: The Suppressed History of ...

Richard N. Rosenfeld - History - 1998 - 1012 pages
...tending to defame the Senate of the United States, and to bring them into contempt and disrepute, and to excite against them the hatred of the good people of the United States. And on the question to adopt this part of the resolution, reported by the committee, it passed in the...
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Secrecy and Liberty: National Security, Freedom of Expression and Access to ...

Sandra Coliver - Law - 1999 - 596 pages
...house of Congress of the United States or the President of the United States with intent to defame ... or to bring them . . . into contempt, or disrepute,...hatred of the good people of the United States..." There were a number of prosecutions and convictions under the Act but it expired by its own terms in...
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I Must Speak Out: The Best of The Voluntaryist 1982-1999

Carl Watner - Anarchism - 1999 - 504 pages
...or either or any of them, into contempt or disrepute, or to excite against them, or either or any of them, the hatred of the good people of the United States, or to stir up sedition within the United States, or to excite any unlawful combinations therein, for opposing or resisting...
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Historic U.S. Court Cases: An Encyclopedia, Volume 1

John W. Johnson - Law - 2001 - 608 pages
...scandalous, and malicious writing" against the government or its officers "with intent to defame ... or to bring them . . . into contempt or disrepute; or to excite against them . . . the hatred of the . . . people ... or to stir up sedition." Incensed by the various Jeffersonian attacks upon John Adams...
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American Datelines: Major News Stories from Colonial Times to the Present

Ed Cray, Jonathan Kotler, Miles Beller - History - 2003 - 444 pages
...against the government of the United States, or either house of Congress ... or the said President . . . or to excite against them the hatred of the good people of the United States . . . or to resist or oppose, or defeat any law. ..." Not surprisingly, many of the targets of this law, which...
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Our Documents: 100 Milestone Documents from the National Archives

United States. National Archives and Records Administration - History - 2006 - 257 pages
...them, or either of them, into contempt or disrepute; or to excite against them, or either or any of them, the hatred of the good people of the United States, or to stir up sedition within the United States, or to excite any unlawful combinations therein, for opposing or resisting...
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The Wisdom of John Adams

John Adams - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 308 pages
...tending to defame the Senate of the United States, and to bring them into contempt and disrepute, and to excite against them the hatred of the good people of the United States. (27 August 1800) (WJA IX 56) Having endured almost continual attempts by members of his cabinet to...
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Cato Supreme Court Review 2001-2002

Roger Pilon, James L. Swanson - Law - 2002 - 296 pages
...the congress of the United States, or the president of the United States, with intent to defame ... or to bring them ... into contempt or disrepute; or to excite against ... any of them, the hatred of the good people of the United States." 9 A Vermont congressman was convicted...
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