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Old 02-20-2017, 09:42 AM
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Originally Posted by donquixote99 View Post
The Sedition Act, fortunately for all of us certainly including TJ, was inoperative at the end of WWI, and repealed in 1920. Opinion is it would be considered unconstitutional today.

It is the sort of thing fascists would look back on with longing, though, per TJ's wikipedia link:



I hope TJ's right, that nothing but more bad talk from Trump is in the offing.

I hate to have to keep hoping things like that. Seems to indicate something is really wrong.
In times of war when the nation is under dire threat what was unconstitutional can indeed become constitutional. It happened during the Civil War, WWI and WWII. Perception is everything in matters like this.
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