Thursday, March 10, 2011

What Did You Say?

Under the Sedition Act, a man named James Callender was fined and imprisoned for making the following statement about President John Adams:

"He has never opened his lips, or lifted his pen, without threatening and scolding. The grand object of his administration has been to exasperate the rage of the contending parties, to calumniate and destroy every man who differs from his opinions."

Would you approve or disapprove of a modern politician who tried to bring back the Sedition Act today? What would you say the politician?


Thursday, March 3, 2011

Father of the Constitution--James Madison

Please give me your thoughts on the following quote from James Madison--"A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth....and what no just government should refuse."