MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THOMAS JEFFERSON
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First Amendment
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Second Amendment
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Fifth Amendment
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Third Amendment
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Detailed explanation-1: -Sedition Act of 1918 (1918) The Sedition Act of 1918 curtailed the free speech rights of U.S. citizens during time of war. Passed on May 16, 1918, as an amendment to Title I of the Espionage Act of 1917, the act provided for further and expanded limitations on speech.
Detailed explanation-2: -Jeffersonian-Republicans countered that the Sedition Act violated the First Amendment because it stifled legitimate criticism of the government, shutting down freedom of speech and the press. The act also violated the Ninth and Tenth Amendments, in Jefferson’s view.
Detailed explanation-3: -The colonial-era statute is clear violation of right to free expression. Britain’s legacy in India includes abusive laws to suppress any opposition to colonial rule. Chief among those is sedition, the law used by the British to imprison Indian nationalists including Mohandas Gandhi and Bal Gangadhar Tilak.