 ... resist, oppose, or defeat any such law or act, or to aid, encourage or abet any hostile designs of any foreign nation against the United States, their people or government, then such person, being thereof convicted before any court of the United States...  The Life of Thomas Jefferson - Side 394av Henry Stephens Randall - 1858Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Lee C. Bollinger - 1991 - 236 sider
...being thereof convicted before any court of the United States having jurisdiction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars, and by imprisonment not exceeding two years." Sedition Act, ch. 73, sec. 2, 1 Stat. 596, 596-97 (1798), repealed by Sedition Act, ch. 73, sec. 4,... | |
 | Charles S. Hyneman - 1994 - 332 sider
...being thereof convicted before any court of the United States having jurisdiction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars, and by imprisonment not exceeding two years. Sec. 3. That if any person shall be prosecuted under this act, for the writing or publishing of any... | |
 | Paul Levinson - 1998 - 284 sider
...the government of the United States . . . then such person, being therefore convicted . . . shall be punished by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars, and by imprisonment not exceeding two years. iseeTedford, 19851 When we recall that the average price of a book until 1 800 was 1 dollar iWhetmore,... | |
 | Teresa A. Goddu - 1997 - 242 sider
...the United States or to stir up sedition within the United States... then such person ... shall be punished by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars, and by imprisonment not exceeding two years." (qtd. in James Smith, Freedoms Fetters, 442) The Sedition Act was enforced more rigorously than the... | |
 | Paul Levinson - 1998 - 284 sider
...government of the United States . . . then such person, being therefore convicted . . . shall Inpunished by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars, and by imprisonment not exceeding two years. (seeTcdford, 1985) When we recall that the average price of a book until 1800 was 1 dollar (Whetmore,... | |
 | Richard N. Rosenfeld - 1998 - 1012 sider
...induced thereto by motives liostile to the Constitution . . . tlie person so offending . . . shall be punished by a fine, not exceeding two thousand dollars, and by imprisonment not exceeding two years."5"" Later today, the sponsor of the Senate's sedition bill, US Senator James Lloyd (Federalist,... | |
 | Bruce Burgett - 1998 - 222 sider
...or to stir up sedition within the United States . . . such person . . . shall be punished by a fioe not exceeding two thousand dollars, and by imprisonment not exceeding two years. Quoted in Jumes Morton Smith. Freedom's Fetters, 441—42. 44. Washington. Letter to Henry Lee, 26... | |
 | Carl Watner - 1999 - 504 sider
...being thereof convicted before any court of the United States having jurisdiction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars, and by imprisonment not exceeding two years. Sec. 3. That if any person shall be prosecuted under this act, for the writing or publishing of any... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - 1841 - 1400 sider
...person, being thereof conDieted before any court of the United States having jurisdiction thereof, sht be punished by a. fine not exceeding two thousand dollars, and by imprisonment not exceeding two years." Upon this indictment Charles Holt was convicted, and sentenced by the court to be imprisioned for three... | |
 | Garrett Ward Sheldon - 2003 - 324 sider
...person, being convicted before any court of the United States having jurisdiction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars, and by imprisonment not exceeding two years."12 In other words, the federal government could lock up anyone even remotely connected with... | |
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