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2 documents for sedition act of 1798

- Political Suppression or Revenue Raising? Taxing Newspapers During the French Revolutionary War
In 1797, the Prime Minister of Great Britain announced a substantial increase in the stamp duty on newspapers. This increase, and indeed the tax itself, has been variously represented as an attack on press freedom and an act of suppression of the working classes. This paper reconsiders these representations by reference to primary sources and concludes that the increases in stamp duty were part of a revenue raising exercise in which taxes on a number of luxury items were increased, including newspapers which were not at the time viewed at being necessities.

...242-243]. The Sedition and Treason Trials: Not unnaturally the growth of ...In 1798 legislation was enacted "for preventing the mischi...
- Accounting Historians Journal, The
- Vol. 31 Nbr. 1, June 2004
- Learning from history: why we need dissent and dissidents.
... dissent was the passage of the alien and sedition acts in 1798. The government of the day maintained...
- International Journal
- Vol. 64 Nbr. 1, December 2008