Disorderly Conduct Quotes
This famous statement is quoted in almost every debate about the limits of freedom of speech.
Kentucky and Tennessee were then considered the frontier and the least civilized among the Americans.
At one level this quotation shows that Congress made the rules and regulations of the armed forces and not the Commander in Chief or the General Officers. But the quotation is important for several other reasons. First, it is the first federal attempt to regulate alcohol and drinking. It is also what we would regard today as a severe infringement of freedom of speech. Politically, it was very hard for any member of Congress not to support legislation to prevent blasphemy. But these and other examples of over a decade of the Continental Congress legislation persuaded most Americans that Congress was not to be trusted to protect their rights and there was a real need for a Bill of Rights so that much of the early activity of the Continental Congress would not continue.
This law is meant to curb the The meetings were parties and other forms of recreation.
