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:Yes, the Supreme Court has upheld the act of 1918, but '''not''' the act of 1789 - see [http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0376_0254_ZO.html], which mentions it in passing.  Besides, we value the US Constitution, including the [[First Amendment]], and also limited government.  As Thomas Jefferson and James Madison wrote,

:Yes, the Supreme Court has upheld the act of 1918, but '''not''' the act of 1789 - see [http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0376_0254_ZO.html], which mentions it in passing.  Besides, we value the US Constitution, including the [[First Amendment]], and also limited government.  As Thomas Jefferson and James Madison wrote,

:{{quotebox|That the General Assembly doth particularly protest against the palpable and alarming infractions of the Constitution, in the two late cases of the "Alien and Sedition Acts" passed at the last session of Congress; the first of which exercises a power no where delegated to the federal government, and which by uniting legislative and judicial powers to those of executive, subverts the general principles of free government; as well as the particular organization, and positive provisions of the federal constitution; and the other of which acts, exercises in like manner, a power not delegated by the constitution, but on the contrary, expressly and positively forbidden by one of the amendments thereto; a power, which more than any other, ought to produce universal alarm, because it is levelled against that right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon, which has ever been justly deemed, the only effectual guardian of every other right.}}

:{{quotebox|That the General Assembly doth particularly protest against the palpable and alarming infractions of the Constitution, in the two late cases of the "Alien and Sedition Acts" passed at the last session of Congress; the first of which exercises a power no where delegated to the federal government, and which by uniting legislative and judicial powers to those of executive, subverts the general principles of free government; as well as the particular organization, and positive provisions of the federal constitution; and the other of which acts, exercises in like manner, a power not delegated by the constitution, but on the contrary, expressly and positively forbidden by one of the amendments thereto; a power, which more than any other, ought to produce universal alarm, because it is levelled against that right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon, which has ever been justly deemed, the only effectual guardian of every other right.}}

:::But even so, what's wrong with the additional information I added about how they've been seen?

:But even so, what's wrong with the additional information I added about how they've been seen? --[[User:EvanW|EvanW]] 11:55, 14 November 2009 (EST)