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Definition of Gag law
1. Noun. A rule for limiting or ending debate in a deliberative body.
Generic synonyms: Order, Parliamentary Law, Parliamentary Procedure, Rules Of Order
Specialized synonyms: Closure By Compartment, Guillotine
Derivative terms: Closure, Cloture
2. Noun. Any law that limits freedom of the press.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gag Law
Literary usage of Gag law
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Some Recollections of Our Antislavery Conflict by Samuel Joseph May (1869)
"THE GAG-LAW. — SECOND INTERVIEW. We left the committee very much dissatisfied
with the treatment we had received from Mr. Lunt and the majority of his ..."
2. Life of Matthew Hale Carpenter: A View of the Honors and Achievements That by Frank Abial Flower (1883)
"THE POLAND "GAG-LAW." As to the so-called " Poland gag-law," Carpenter did vote
for it.1 As a part of the slanderous ooze he was compelled to stem, ..."
3. William Lloyd Garrison and His Times: Or, Sketches of the Anti-slavery by Oliver Johnson, John Greenleaf Whittier (1881)
"... Abolitionism — Intense Excitement — The Students Become Missionaries—The
Trustees Enact a Gag-Law — The Faculty Submits—Dr. Beecher Yields to Temptation ..."
4. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"Gag bill, gag law—contd. 1808 I would not repeal it, though it should raise a
clamor as loud as my gag-law.—JQ Adams, ' Works' (1854), ix. 604. ..."
5. History of California by Theodore Henry Hittell (1898)
"... the sand-lotters, the "Gag-law." It was in fact an amendment to the penal
code, passed at the solicitation of the board of supervisors of San Francisco. ..."
6. Thirty Years' View: Or, A History of the Working of the American Government by Thomas Hart Benton (1858)
"Did the senator from Kentucky mean to apply to the Senate the gag law ... Mr.
CALHOUN said there was no doubt of the senator's predilection for a gag law. ..."
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