Summary: On 14 July 1798 President John Adams signed the Sedition Act into law which made it a crime to "write, print, utter, or publish... any false, scandalous and malicious writing against the government of the United States." In part 2 of this conversation with professor Stephen Solomon, we will explore how Americans who had championed freedom of speech as the “Great bulwark of liberty” and thumped their noses at English sedition laws in the lead up to the Revolution, came to adopt their own sedition law
