Write a one sentence statement explaining why or how the sedition act and the first amendment may have been in conflict

The Sedition Act outlawed conspiracies to oppose any measures of the government. This Act made it illegal for anyone to express any false, scandalous, and malicious writing against Congress or the President. Republicans stated that this Sedition Act violated the First Amendment to the U. S. Constitution, which protects freedom of speech and the press.

religion played a major role in the american revolution by offering a moral sanction for opposition to the british--an assurance to the average american that revolution was justified in the sight of god. the revolution strengthened millennialist strains in american.

frederick william of brandenburg-prussia trained his son, frederick, to be a hardy soldier. but frederick disliked rifle shooting and horseback riding. unlike his father, he was interested in french literature. he enjoyed poetry and music and, like some others of the enlightenment, he scoffed at religion. his father thought him soft, frivolous and unmindful of his duties. and when frederick refused to put his signature on a right to succession, for a few moments his father strangled him.