gag law

IPA: gˈægɫɔ

Examples of "gag-law" in Sentences

So read the gag-law, as it was called, introduced in the House by Mr. Atherton.
It must be acknowledged that the Zionists apply their gag-law in a diabolically clever way.
Pythagoras, and subjected himself to the regular discipline of that curious system whose first process was a sort of juvenile gag-law, the pupils being required to keep perfectly silent for a period of five years, during which time it was forbidden to utter a single word.
Pennsylvania in 1803 anent such critics, Jefferson said: 'The federalists having failed in destroying freedom of the press by their gag-law, seem to have attacked in an opposite direction; that is by pushing its licentiousness and its lying to such a degree of prostitution as to deprive it of all credit.
Thus President Jefferson wrote to Governor McKean of Pennsylvania in 1803: The federalists having failed in destroying freedom of the press by their gag-law, seem to have attacked it in an opposite direction; that is, by pushing its licentiousness and its lying to such a degree of prostitution as to deprive it of all credit ....
In naval operations, and the workings of the Conscript Law, especially was this freedom felt to be injurious; and though it sprang from the perfectly pure motive of doing the best for the cause -- though the smallest southern journal, printed on straw paper and with worn-out type, was above purchase, or hush money -- still it might have been better at times had gag-law been applied.