But the Republican condemnations of the severe punishment that the Federalists inflicted upon anybody who criticized the Government, raised fundamental issues and created conditions that forced action on those issues.
Beveridge discusses how Republican criticisms of Federalist punishments sparked important political debates.
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Thus provincialism in the form of States' Rights was given a fresh impulse and a new vitality.
The Spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
Any nation, however, may by statute declare an act to be piratical which is not so by the law of nations; and such an act is punishable only by that particular state and not by other governments.
The Alien and Sedition Laws were, they asserted, the beginning of monarchy, the foundation of absolutism.
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