Can the Alien and Sedition Acts be justified, especially in view of the excesses of editors such as Bache? If free speech ought to be curbed, who should do the curbing? Why is free speech necessary for the workings of a free government? It has been said that many a minority has become a majority because its foes were unwise enough to persecute it. Comment with reference to the Jeffersonian Democratic-Republicans of 1798.

Can the Alien and Sedition Acts be justified, especially in view of the excesses of editors such as Bache? If free speech ought to be curbed, who should do the curbing? Why is free speech necessary for the workings of a free government? It has been said that many a minority has become a majority because its foes were unwise enough to persecute it. Comment with reference to the Jeffersonian Democratic-Republicans of 1798.