Peter Charles Hoffer 
The Free Press Crisis of 1800 [EPUB ebook] 
Thomas Cooper’s Trial for Seditious Libel

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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 offense challenged the freedom of the American press and gave the government the power to drag offending newspaper editors into court. The ...

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Preface

Acknowledgments

Prologue: The Pursuit of Benjamin Bache

1. From the Zenger Case to the First Amendment

2. The Federalists Pass a Sedition Act

3. T...

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Peter Charles Hoffer is Distinguished Research Professor of History at the University of Georgia and coeditor of the series Landmark Law Cases and American Society. A...

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