You may think that the Constitution is your security it is nothing but a piece of paper. You may think that the statutes are your security but they are nothing but words in a book. You may think that elaborate mechanism of government is your security but it is nothing at all, unless you have sound and uncorrupted public opinion to give life to your Constitution, to give vitality to your statutes, to make efficient your government machinery.
-Charles Evan Hughes, Chief Justice U.S. Supreme Court, 1930-1941
Contemporary Connection…
Lecture on Alien & Sedition and Espionage and Sedition Acts
My Lesson Plan to Connect Alien & Sedition Acts to USAPA
Time Magazine calls Alien & Sedition Acts the Patriot Act of the 18th Century
Librarians are More Rebellious Than Many Think
Feel free to read all 342 pages of this masterpiece here
Naturally, the ACLU would love nothing more than to see the demise of the USAPA