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blj-2545	Granahan, Jack	The Sedition Act of 1798 as a Federalist Legal Instrument	2025	14	.pdf	application/pdf	4086	165	46	44 Id. at 291-292. 130 Brandeis University Law Journal 2024-2025, Volume 12 one of many demonstrations of Justice Chase’s explicit Federalist bias–a staple of Sedition Act prosecutions.49 The penultimate indictment under the Sedition Act was that of James T. Callender, a prominent Democratic-Republican writer and contributor to the Richmond Examiner. Sedition and Freedom of Speech Democratic-Republicans slammed the Sedition Act as a blatant violation of the First Amendment to the Constitution, which states that “Congress shall make no law […] abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.	cache/blj-2545.pdf	txt/blj-2545.txt