Note 61 — Chapter I · FREEDOM OF SPEECH IN WAR TIME

2 May, Constitutional History, 38–41, on the trials of Muir and Palmer. Philip A. Brown, The French Revolution in English History, 97. Fourteen years appears to have been the longest sentence for sedition imposed in Scotland during the French wars. Four years was the longest in England. See note 157 in Chapter II, infra, for sentences under the Espionage Act. Compare with these charges that of Van Valkenburgh, J., in United States v. Rose Pastor Stokes, infra, and the remarks of Judge Clayton in the Abrams trial in Chapter III.