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7763. SEDITION LAW, Unconstitutional.—[continued].

The ground on which I
acted in the cases of Duane, Callender, and
others [was] that the Sedition law was unconstitutional
and null, and that my obligation
to execute what was law, involved that of not
suffering rights secured by valid laws to be
prostrated by what was no law.—
To Wilson C. Nicholas. Washington ed. v, 453. Ford ed., ix, 254.
(M. 1809)

See Alien and Sedition Laws.