By definition, a quilt is a coverlet or blanket made of two layers of fabric with a layer of cotton, wool, feathers, or down in between, all stitched firmly together, usually in a decorative crisscross design.
A sodomy law is a law that defines certain sexual acts as crimes. The precise sexual acts meant by the term sodomy are rarely spelled out in the law, but are typically understood by courts to include any sexual act deemed to be unnatural or immoral. Sodomy typically includes anal sex, oral sex and bestiality.
In the sedition act of 1798 the acts that are illegal were when you wrote something bad against the government (bad print) and false saying toward government.The laws were passed because this stopped bad print and the people who wrote the bad print and publisher s got arrested or even deported.