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connection passes the first dissenter statute and allows full liberty of worship.
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The continental congress adopts the final draft of the declaration of independence.
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Eighteen baptists are jailed in Massachusetts for not paying.
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the U.S houses of representatives adopts gag rules
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Roger Baldwin start organization called the american civil liberties union (ACLU)
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congress passes the sedition a lot, printed criticism
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H.L Mencken is arrested for distributing copies of american mercury.
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt pardons those convicted under espionage .
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Magazines are now banned the VS for let out the wrong pics.
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Georgina , Massachusetts and connective finally ratify the bill of rights .
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Passed the snit act and registration act of 1940
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congress authorizes president Franklin D . Roosevelt to create the office of censorship.