Challenging the Alien & Sedition Acts

Paul Finkelman pfink at albanylaw.edu
Sat Oct 20 09:54:11 PDT 2007


Read Morton Smith, Freedom's Fetters.  It is still the best book on the
subject.  

Paul Finkelman
President William McKinley Distinguished Professor of Law
     and Public Policy
Albany Law School
80 New Scotland Avenue
Albany, New York   12208-3494

518-445-3386 
pfink at albanylaw.edu
>>> <RJLipkin at aol.com> 10/20/07 10:56 AM >>>
In 1798, did anyone  raise a Free Speech challenge to the (Alien &)
Sedition 
Act(s) in  court?  If not, why not?   Thanks.

Bobby

Robert Justin  Lipkin
Professor of Law
Widener University School of  Law
Delaware

Ratio Juris
,  Contributor: _  http://ratiojuris.blogspot.com/_ 
(http://ratiojuris.blogspot.com/) 
Essentially Contested  America, Editor-In-Chief 
_http://www.essentiallycontestedamerica.org/_
(http://www.essentiallycontestedamerica.org/) 



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