Jon, I apologize for throwing a wet blanket. Very unpatriotic of me. But here to save the day is the Virginia Reso of 1798, all ours, deeply ours:
"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,' [Horrescendo!] pa…
Jon, I apologize for throwing a wet blanket. Very unpatriotic of me. But here to save the day is the Virginia Reso of 1798, all ours, deeply ours:
"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,' [Horrescendo!] 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."
Yes the control and flow of ideas started immediately upon our declaration of freedom on up to the current time. Quite ironic in “the land of the free”.
Jon, I apologize for throwing a wet blanket. Very unpatriotic of me. But here to save the day is the Virginia Reso of 1798, all ours, deeply ours:
"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,' [Horrescendo!] 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."
Yes the control and flow of ideas started immediately upon our declaration of freedom on up to the current time. Quite ironic in “the land of the free”.
I wonder if the same thing took place in the Netherlands, apres 1581.
Oh it’s been that way for all human history. Now that so many worldviews are now available since the “Enlightenment” the filter is quite evident. 😉