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Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- References -- Chapter 2: Probing Deeper than the Surface of Discourse: Identifying Fallacies in a Political Debate in 1789 -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 James Jackson's Fallacy in the Debate of June 8, 1789 -- 2.3 The Question of Evidence and the Status of ad socordiam -- 2.4 Roger Sherman's Fallacy in the Debate of June 8, 1789 -- 2.5 Later Procedural Debates -- 2.6 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Political Rhetoric in Wartime: A Case Study from 1812 -- 3.1 Background and Historical Context -- 3.2 Political Rhetoric and Hanson's Campaign in 1812 -- 3.2.1 Early Accounts of the Unrest: Frames, Narratives and Agency -- 3.2.2 Later Articles in the Federal Republican, from August to October 1812 -- 3.3 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Attacks on the Madison Administration in the Federal Republican in Early 1813 -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 The Origins of the War and the Alleged Nature of the Republican Administration -- 4.3 "Gulling Material" and Personal Attacks on President Madison -- 4.4 Aggravated Impoliteness -- 4.5 Coda: Praise for Great Britain in the Federal Republican -- 4.6 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: James Madison, the Father of Freedom of Speech -- 5.1 Introduction and Background -- 5.2 Hegel's Stance on Freedom of Speech in the Philosophy of Right -- 5.3 Madison's Stance on Freedom of Speech -- 5.4 Absolute Freedom of Speech? -- 5.5 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6: Conclusion -- References -- Index.

"This book is for those interested in freedom of speech. Today the American Bill of Rights, with its famous First Amendment, is generally taken for granted, but when James Madison proposed a Bill of Rights in 1789, the reaction among his colleagues in the first Congress was hostile. The book examines how Madison was able to prevail in spite of such opposition. It also focuses on discourses connected to the Sedition Act of 1798, which represented a serious threat to freedom of speech and the first Amendment. The author sheds fresh light on key Congressional debates on the Bill of Rights and the Sedition Act by developing and applying an approach to fallacy theory that is suitable to the study of political discourse. He further focuses on criticism of the Madison administration in Federalist newspapers during the War of 1812, arguing that Madison's toleration of such criticism was important in shaping a tradition of free expression in the United States. Efforts to suppress free expression during the Wilson administration represented a serious challenge to this tradition, and the author goes on to employ fallacy theory in examining Congressional discourses for and against Wilson's policy of repression"--

On April 4, 1918 Senator Overman urged his colleagues in the United States Senate to approve the Sedition Act of 1918 within two days. The paper outlines the context of the proposal, and argues that it involved a fallacy. An analysis of the fallacy is offered, and it is argued that in the study of political discourse it is often helpful to take the inner convictions of speakers into account.

The paper sheds light on an important procedural debate in the U.S. House of Representatives on the American Federal Bill of Rights in the summer of 1789. To study the debate, it is proposed that it is useful to draw on the informal fallacy of ad socordiam, and an illustration is provided, with attention paid to the question of how to identify and analyze the fallacy.

Review article
John Harmon McElroy, Finding Freedom: America's Distinctive Cultural Formation.

Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- References -- Chapter 2: Opposition to Amending the Constitution in a Congressional Debate in 1789 -- 2.1 Introduction and Background -- 2.2 Opposition to Madison's Motion on June 8, 1789 -- 2.3 Comparing the Argumentation of Madison's Opponents -- 2.4 Defining the Fallacy of ad socordiam -- 2.5 Concluding Observations -- References -- Chapter 3: Edward Livingston's Resolution for Negotiating with France in July 1798 -- 3.1 Background -- 3.2 Edward Livingston's Resolution and Kittera's Amendment -- 3.3 Concluding Observations -- References -- Chapter 4: Arguing for the Sedition Act in the Debate of July 5, 1798 -- 4.1 Background -- 4.2 The Debate of July 5, 1798: Allen and Harper on the Offensive -- 4.3 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: Debating the Expulsion of Matthew Lyon in February 1799 -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 The Debates of February 20 and February 22, 1799 to Expel Matthew Lyon -- 5.3 Concluding Observations -- References -- Chapter 6: Conclusion -- References -- Index.

A type of ad socordiam is identified in its context, with data from debates on the Bill of Rights in 1789. The fallacy involves a hidden intention as a salient feature. The study examines the ques-tion of how inferences can be made about hidden intentions. Further, it examines the relation of the fallacy identified to another type of ad socordiam.