John Adams signed the Sedition Act in an attempt to silence dissent. Some other Founding Fathers thought that muzzling the ...

James Madison, who drafted the Bill of Rights, insisted on referring to speech as “the” freedom of speech to emphasize that ...

I disagree with what you say but will defend to the death your right to say it.” — Voltaire (1694-1778) When Thomas Jefferson ...

The law, which gives the president sweeping powers over non-citizens, was part of a set of statutes that emerged during the tenuous period following the Revolutionary War.

We know that at least five of the Venezuelan immigrants were seeking asylum legally. Three had hearings scheduled later this month. How could they be rounded up and flown to El Salvador in the middle ...

RimbaWatch says the bill does not restrict the use of locally captured carbon dioxide and provides no penalties for projects ...

The Pakistan Foreign Office (PFO) has taken a serious note of a bipartisan bill introduced by US lawmakers in the House of ...

The new version for Criminal Offences Bill includes harsher penalties for offences like incitement to sedition and unlawful oaths while also providing protections for whistle-blowers exposing ...

Young college undergraduates and post-graduate students have a well-documented history of “dissenting” from mainstream ...

Islamabad: The Pakistan Foreign Office (PFO) has taken serious note of a bipartisan bill introduced by US lawmakers in the ...

President Trump invoked the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 to deport Venezuelan ... must be protected from government overreach. The Bill of Rights is the cornerstone of American democracy.