RE: First Amendemnt
- Archived: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 11:16:00 -0500 (EST)
- Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 10:40:34 -0500 (EST)
- From: Kevin T. Brady <KBrady@BillofRights.Institute.org>
- Subject: RE: First Amendemnt
- X-topic: Introductions
I also hope candidates speak the truth, but who decides want is true? The Sedition Act of 1798 made allowances for the "truth." Actually, before the Act, truth was not a defense in a libel trial.
James Madison and Thomas Jefferson both objected to the Sedition Act. They believed it violated the First Amendment. Nevertheless, if what a person said was "true" he could not be convicted of the violating the Act.
Do we want to have a committee to determine "truth"?
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