The sedition Act was a bit of a hypocritical act. So this act overall makes it a crime to criticize any officer of the government. So basically it was illegal to talk or make the government seem horrible or terrifying in any sort of way. I say it’s a bit hypocritical because it attacked the writer of the Jeffersonian paper and other writers locking them up in prison for writing truths about the government. Their wives continued to work the newspapers, but these men suffered. The bail was set for $5000, all writers but 1 died. The Sedition Act was unconstitutional because it violated the 1st Amendment, which permits the Freedom Of Speech. Supreme Court Justice John Marshall claimed this act and imprisonment unconstitutional, but of course there
