Michael Haddam
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 22 Jan
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Even if you said something bad about somebody else, even if it was true, it was still liable.
Mm-hmm.
But Hamilton argued that it wasn't.
And the New York jury, which was, you know, not great fans of Cosby, ruled in Zenger's favor and he was acquitted.
And the thing about that trial is people think that it established this principle that, you know, liable, it's not liable if what you say is true.
Yeah.
But that's not true.
That precedent did not hold and really did not become part of the way that American law treats libel until many, many years later, centuries later.
Interesting.
Yeah, it's in those decades that the Enlightenment sort of comes to the colonies, right?
After the 1730s.
And a core value of the Enlightenment is debate.
It is of questioning tradition, and it is of debate.
And so the idea that it was necessary for society to progress, to have these debates and to question authority, and that really takes hold in the colonies in the 1740s, 1750s, and 1760s.
And so that by the time you get to the crisis of the 1760s,
You know, the American printers are churning out newspapers and pamphlets that are constantly criticizing Parliament and the King.
Yeah, and in a lot of ways, you know, pain is, in some sense, the culmination of that, because...
I mean, he's one of the first to outright question monarchy itself.
right?
He totally dismisses parliament.
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