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As the British Crown owned the printing rights it was illegal to print this Bible in America. [102] Subsequently, the printing was conducted as privately as possible and bore the London imprint from which it was copied, to avoid prosecution and detection of the unauthorized printing. [103]
In mid-August 1861, four New York City newspapers (the New York Daily News, The Journal of Commerce, the Day Book and the New York Freeman’s Journal) were given a presentment by a U.S. Circuit Court grand jury for "frequently encouraging the rebels by expressions of sympathy and agreement".
Producing or using counterfeit money is a form of fraud or forgery, and is illegal in all jurisdictions of the world. The business of counterfeiting money is nearly as old as money itself: plated copies (known as Fourrées ) have been found of Lydian coins , which are thought to be among the first Western coins. [ 1 ]
Banned in the US in the 1930s until the early 1960s, seized by US Customs for sexually explicit content and vulgarity. The rest of Miller's work was also banned by the US. [285] Also banned in South Africa until the late 1980s. [286] The Grapes of Wrath (1939) John Steinbeck: 1939 *Unknown* Novel Was temporarily banned in many places in the US.
The Printing Act of 1895 [1] was a law designed to centralize in the United States Government Printing Office the printing, binding, and distribution of U.S. Government documents. [2] The Act revised public printing laws and established the roles of the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) and the Government Printing Office (GPO) in ...
The Butler Act, enacted in Tennessee in 1925, made it illegal for schools to teach content that conflicted with the book of Genesis' account of human origin. Evolution is a scientific theory coming from the book that many people perceived as conflicting with the Bible, and thus Darwin's book was banned. [83] This law was upheld until 1967. [84]
Anti-gun protest. Due to the work of the NRA, the Federal Assault Weapons ban expired in 2004, and the number of mass shootings and people dead due to shootings skyrocketed.
Internet censorship in the United States of America is the suppression of information published or viewed on the Internet in the United States.The First Amendment of the United States Constitution protects freedom of speech and expression against federal, state, and local government censorship.