gag-law

Thus President Jefferson wrote to Governor McKean of Pennsylvania in 1803: The federalists having failed in destroying freedom of the press by their gag-law, seem to have attacked it in an opposite direction; that is, by pushing its licentiousness and its lying to such a degree of prostitution as to deprive it of all credit ....

The Satanic Perspective on the USA’s Troubling Times | Disinformation 2008

In naval operations, and the workings of the Conscript Law, especially was this freedom felt to be injurious; and though it sprang from the perfectly pure motive of doing the best for the cause -- though the smallest southern journal, printed on straw paper and with worn-out type, was above purchase, or hush money -- still it might have been better at times had gag-law been applied.

Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death T. C. DeLeon

Pennsylvania in 1803 anent such critics, Jefferson said: 'The federalists having failed in destroying freedom of the press by their gag-law, seem to have attacked in an opposite direction; that is by pushing its licentiousness and its lying to such a degree of prostitution as to deprive it of all credit.

The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952 Edward Samuel Corwin 1920

Pythagoras, and subjected himself to the regular discipline of that curious system whose first process was a sort of juvenile gag-law, the pupils being required to keep perfectly silent for a period of five years, during which time it was forbidden to utter a single word.

The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages 1850

So read the gag-law, as it was called, introduced in the House by Mr. Atherton.

The Complete Works of Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier 1849

So read the gag-law, as it was called, introduced in the House by Mr. Atherton.

Anti-Slavery, Labor and Reform, Complete From Volume III., the Works of Whittier: Anti-Slavery Poems and Songs of Labor and Reform John Greenleaf Whittier 1849

So read the gag-law, as it was called, introduced in the House by Mr. Atherton.

Songs of Labor and Reform From Volume III., the Works of Whittier: Anti-Slavery Poems and Songs of Labor and Reform John Greenleaf Whittier 1849

It must be acknowledged that the Zionists apply their gag-law in a diabolically clever way.

palestinefreevoice Editor Publisher Hiyam Noir 2010

It must be acknowledged that the Zionists apply their gag-law in a diabolically clever way.

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