Sedition Acts 2

The sedition acts became a law in 1798. This act made it illegal to "write, print, utter or publish... any false, scandalous and malicious writing or writings against the Gov..." (58). The law today is milder. I'm sure people like David Horsee would be in jail for life if he lived around the 18th century. I don't have the space to list current statements that would be prosecuted under this law. If people were still serving jail time, the jails would run out of space.