James Morton Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 3963412 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Morton Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | James Morton |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Ohio State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1952 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Massachusetts Historical Society: A Bicentennial History, 1791-1991
The Republic of Letters: The Correspondence between Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, 1776-1826. Volume One: 1776-1790; Volume Two: 1790-1804; Volume Three: 1804-1836
The Republic of Letters: The Correspondence between Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, 1776-1826
For the first fifty years of the new nation's existence, they formed a personal and political partnership, jointly working out the ideology of democracy and the practice of representative government. The collaboration began in 1776, when Jefferson and Madison met as members of the Virginia House of Delegates, and ended fifty years later, when Jefferson died. They exchanged nearly 1,250 letters, running the gamut from short notes (Will you come an…
Was Madison More Radical Than Jefferson
Emergence of a Free Press
The Grass Roots Origins of the Kentucky Resolutions
IN spring of I798 XYZ dispatches from American negotiators in France-John Marshall, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, and Elbridge Gerry-stirred reaction against the terrible Republic and led what President John Adams labeled the half war with France. As millions for defense, but not cent for tribute became popular slogan of day, Adams urged Congress bury party differences and make defense preparations with promptitude, decision, and unanimity. Adams'…
The Democratic Republic, 1801-1815
The Bill of Rights: Its Origin and Meaning
The South Carolina Regulators. Richard Maxwell Brown
Legacy of Suppression: Freedom of Speech and Press in Early American History
Seventeenth-Century America: Essays in Colonial History
Seventeenth-Century America: Essays in Colonial History
Seventeenth-Century America: Essays in Colonial History
Seventeenth-Century America: Essays in Colonial History
Journal Article Seventeenth-Century America: Essays in Colonial History. Edited by James Morton Smith. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1959. xvi + 238 pp. Notes and index. $5.00.) Get access Douglas E. Leach Douglas E. Leach Vanderbilt University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 46, Issue 3, Decemb…
Freedom's Fetters: The Alien and Sedition Laws and American Civil Liberties
Journal Article Freedom's Fetters: The Alien and Sedition Laws and American Civil Liberties. By James Morton Smith. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, in cooperation with the Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1956. xvi + 464 pp. Notes, appendix, bibliographical note, and index. $5.00.) Get access Adrienne Koch Adrienne Koch University of California, Berkeley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar J…
Freedom's Fetters: The Alien and Sedition Laws and American Civil Liberties
The First Rapprochement: England and the United States, 1795-1805
Freedom's Fetters: The Alien and Sedition Laws and American Civil Liberties
Bill of Rights Readers: Leading Constitutional Cases. Milton R. Konvitz
Freedom's Fetters: The Alien and Sedition Laws and American Civil Liberties
The Federalist "Saints" versus "The Devil of Sedition": The Liberty Pole Cases of Dedham, Massachusetts, 1798-1799
James Morton Smith, The Federalist "Saints" versus "The Devil of Sedition": The Liberty Pole Cases of Dedham, Massachusetts, 1798-1799, The New England Quarterly, Vol. 28, No. 2 (Jun., 1955), pp. 198-215
Political Suppression of Seditious Criticism: A Connecticut Case Study
(1955). Political Suppression of Seditious Criticism: A Connecticut Case Study. The Historian: Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 41-56
President John Adams, Thomas Cooper, and Sedition: A Case Study in Suppression
Journal Article President John Adams, Thomas Cooper, and Sedition: A Case Study in Suppression Get access James Morton Smith James Morton Smith Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 42, Issue 3, December 1955, Pages 438–465, https://doi.org/10.2307/1898365 Published: 01 December 1955
The First Republicans: Political Philosophy and Public Policy in the Party of Jefferson and Madison
The Enforcement of the Alien Friends Act of 1798
Journal Article The Enforcement of the Alien Friends Act of 1798 Get access James Morton Smith James Morton Smith Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 41, Issue 1, June 1954, Pages 85–104, https://doi.org/10.2307/1898151 Published: 01 June 1954
The Republic of Letters: The Correspondence between Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, 1776-1826
For the first fifty years of the new nation's existence, they formed a personal and political partnership, jointly working out the ideology of democracy and the practice of representative government. The collaboration began in 1776, when Jefferson and Madison met as members of the Virginia House of Delegates, and ended fifty years later, when Jefferson died. They exchanged nearly 1,250 letters, running the gamut from short notes (Will you come an…
Seventeenth-Century America: Essays in Colonial History
Seventeenth-Century America: Essays in Colonial History
Journal Article Seventeenth-Century America: Essays in Colonial History. Edited by James Morton Smith. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1959. xvi + 238 pp. Notes and index. $5.00.) Get access Douglas E. Leach Douglas E. Leach Vanderbilt University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 46, Issue 3, Decemb…
Alexander Hamilton, the Alien Law, and Seditious Libels
The biographers of Alexander Hamilton have been almost unanimous in absolving him from any complicity in the enactment and enforcement of the Alien and Sedition Laws of 1798. Most of them deny that he supported those now discredited laws and portray him as a defender of civil liberties who stood against the whole Federalist party. One writer asserts that by passing the laws the Federalists “mutinied” against Hamilton's recommendation of moderatio…
Sedition in the Old Dominion: James T. Callender and The Prospect Before Us
The Sedition Law, Free Speech, and the American Political Process
P POPULAR government rests on the right of the public to choose between opposing views. Since an informed public opinion is vital to republican government, freedom of expression is necessary for the formation of that opinion. If people cannot communicate their thoughts to one another without running the risk of prosecution, no other liberty can be secure because freedom of speech and of the press are essential to any meaning of liberty. The years…
The Enforcement of the Alien Friends Act of 1798
Journal Article The Enforcement of the Alien Friends Act of 1798 Get access James Morton Smith James Morton Smith Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 41, Issue 1, June 1954, Pages 85–104, https://doi.org/10.2307/1898151 Published: 01 June 1954
Problems in Freedom
Alexander Hamilton, the Alien Law, and Seditious Libels
The biographers of Alexander Hamilton have been almost unanimous in absolving him from any complicity in the enactment and enforcement of the Alien and Sedition Laws of 1798. Most of them deny that he supported those now discredited laws and portray him as a defender of civil liberties who stood against the whole Federalist party. One writer asserts that by passing the laws the Federalists “mutinied” against Hamilton's recommendation of moderatio…
Sedition in the Old Dominion: James T. Callender and The Prospect Before Us
Sedition, suppression, and speech: A comic footnote on the enforcement of the sedition law of 1798
(1954). Sedition, suppression, and speech: A comic footnote on the enforcement of the sedition law of 1798. Quarterly Journal of Speech: Vol. 40, No. 3, pp. 284-287
The Federalist "Saints" versus "The Devil of Sedition": The Liberty Pole Cases of Dedham, Massachusetts, 1798-1799
James Morton Smith, The Federalist "Saints" versus "The Devil of Sedition": The Liberty Pole Cases of Dedham, Massachusetts, 1798-1799, The New England Quarterly, Vol. 28, No. 2 (Jun., 1955), pp. 198-215
Political Suppression of Seditious Criticism: A Connecticut Case Study
(1955). Political Suppression of Seditious Criticism: A Connecticut Case Study. The Historian: Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 41-56
President John Adams, Thomas Cooper, and Sedition: A Case Study in Suppression
Journal Article President John Adams, Thomas Cooper, and Sedition: A Case Study in Suppression Get access James Morton Smith James Morton Smith Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 42, Issue 3, December 1955, Pages 438–465, https://doi.org/10.2307/1898365 Published: 01 December 1955
The First Republicans: Political Philosophy and Public Policy in the Party of Jefferson and Madison
Freedom's Fetters: The Alien and Sedition Laws and American Civil Liberties
Bill of Rights Readers: Leading Constitutional Cases. Milton R. Konvitz
Freedom's Fetters: The Alien and Sedition Laws and American Civil Liberties
Freedom's Fetters: The Alien and Sedition Laws and American Civil Liberties
Journal Article Freedom's Fetters: The Alien and Sedition Laws and American Civil Liberties. By James Morton Smith. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, in cooperation with the Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1956. xvi + 464 pp. Notes, appendix, bibliographical note, and index. $5.00.) Get access Adrienne Koch Adrienne Koch University of California, Berkeley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar J…
Freedom's Fetters: The Alien and Sedition Laws and American Civil Liberties
The First Rapprochement: England and the United States, 1795-1805
Seventeenth-Century America: Essays in Colonial History
Seventeenth-Century America: Essays in Colonial History
Journal Article Seventeenth-Century America: Essays in Colonial History. Edited by James Morton Smith. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1959. xvi + 238 pp. Notes and index. $5.00.) Get access Douglas E. Leach Douglas E. Leach Vanderbilt University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 46, Issue 3, Decemb…
Seventeenth-Century America: Essays in Colonial History
Seventeenth-Century America: Essays in Colonial History
Legacy of Suppression: Freedom of Speech and Press in Early American History
The South Carolina Regulators. Richard Maxwell Brown
The Bill of Rights: Its Origin and Meaning
The Democratic Republic, 1801-1815
The Grass Roots Origins of the Kentucky Resolutions
IN spring of I798 XYZ dispatches from American negotiators in France-John Marshall, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, and Elbridge Gerry-stirred reaction against the terrible Republic and led what President John Adams labeled the half war with France. As millions for defense, but not cent for tribute became popular slogan of day, Adams urged Congress bury party differences and make defense preparations with promptitude, decision, and unanimity. Adams'…
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