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"If any person shall write, print, utter or publish, or shall cause or procure to be written, printed, uttered or published, or shall knowingly and willingly assist or aid in writing, printing, uttering or publishing any ... malicious writing or writings against the government of the United States ... to stir up sedition within the United States, or to excite any unlawful combinations therein, for opposing or resisting any law of the United States, or any act of the President of the United States, done in pursuance of any such law, or of the powers in him vested by the constitution of the United States, or to resist, oppose, or defeat any such law or act, ... then such person, ... shall be punished by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars, and by imprisonment not exceeding two years." —Alien and Sedition Acts, 1798The excerpt from the Alien and Sedition Acts demonstrates that

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