Text of the Sedition Act

# The Sedition Act ( officially An Act in Addition to the Act Entitled " An Act for the Punishment of Certain Crimes against the United States "; ch.

Callender, already residing in Virginia and writing for the Richmond Examiner, was indicted under the Sedition Act.

He was indicted under the Sedition Act for an essay he had written in the Vermont Journal accusing the administration of " ridiculous pomp, foolish adulation, and selfish avarice ".

* Sedition Act of 1918

The Sedition Act of 1798 and the Incorporation of Seditious Libel into First Amendment Jurisprudence.

* Martin, James P. When Repression Is Democratic and Constitutional: The Federalist Theory of Representation and the Sedition Act of 1798.

* Stone, Geoffrey R. Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from The Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism ( 2004 )

It carried the words, " No Stamp Act, No Sedition Act, No Alien Bills, No Land Tax, downfall to the Tyrants of America ; peace and retirement to the President ; Love Live the Vice President ," referring to then-President John Adams and Vice President Thomas Jefferson.

* 1798 – The Sedition Act becomes law in the United States making it a federal crime to write, publish, or utter false or malicious statements about the United States government.

* 1918 – The Sedition Act of 1918 is passed by the U. S. Congress, making criticism of the government during wartime an imprisonable offense.

In retrospect, dicta from New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, acknowledges that, " lthough the Sedition Act was never tested in this Court, the attack upon its validity has carried the day in the court of history.

* May 16 – The Sedition Act of 1918 is approved by the U. S. Congress.

The Naturalization Act of 1798, part of the Alien and Sedition Acts, was passed by the Federalists and extended the residency requirement from five to fourteen years.

[...] I must not however conceal from Your Excellency, that the Gentry, well disposed, and heartily desirous as they are, to serve the Crown, and to serve it with Zeal, when formed into regular Corps, do not relish commanding a bare Militia, they never were used to that Service under the French Government, ( and perhaps for good Reasons ) besides the sudden Dismission of the Canadian Regiment raised in 1764, without Gratuity or Recompence to Offices, who engaged in our Service almost immediately after the Cession of the Country, of taking any Notice of them since, tho ' they all expected half pay, is still uppermost in their Thoughts, and not likely to encourage their engaging a second Time in the same Way ; as to the Habitants or Peasantry, ever since the Civil Authority has been introduced into the Province, the Government of it has hung so loose, and retained so little Power, they have in a Manner emancipated themselves, and it will require Time, and discreet Management likewise, to recall them to their ancient Habits of Obedience and Discipline ; considering all the new Ideas they have been acquiring for these ten years past, can it be thought they will be pleased at being suddenly, and without Preparation embodied into a Militia, and marched from their Families, Lands, and Habitations to remote Provinces, and all the Horrors of War, which they have already experienced ; It would give appearance of Truth to the Language of our Sons of Sedition, at this very Moment busily employed instilling into their Minds, that the Act was passed merely to serve the present Purposes of Government, and in the full Intention of ruling over them with all the Despotism of their ancient Masters.

Yet, in 1918, before the bombings, President Woodrow Wilson had pressured the Congress to legislate the anti-immigrant, anti-anarchist Sedition Act of 1918 to protect wartime morale by deporting putatively undesirable political people.

After the Restoration the English Parliament passed the Sedition Act 1661, which declared that the Solemn League and Covenant was unlawful, was to be abjured by all persons holding public offices, and was to be burnt by the common hangman.

The Espionage Act of 1917 and the Sedition Act of 1918 gave the American authorities the right to close newspapers and jailed individuals for having anti-war views.

Other notable pieces of first session legislation include the Militia Act placing the armed forces unambiguously under the king's authority, and the Sedition Act.

The law was extended on May 16, 1918, by the Sedition Act of 1918 – actually a set of amendments to the Espionage Act – which prohibited many forms of speech, including " any disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language about the form of government of the United States ... or the flag of the United States, or the uniform of the Army or Navy ".

During the Red Scare of 1918 – 19, in response to the 1919 anarchist bombings aimed at prominent government officials and businessman, U. S. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, supported by J. Edgar Hoover, then head of the Justice Department's Enemy Aliens Registration Section, used the Sedition Act, a 1918 amendment to the Espionage Act, to deport several hundred foreign citizens, including Emma Goldman, to the Soviet Union on a ship the press called the " Soviet Ark ".

The U. S. Congress passed, and Wilson signed, the Espionage Act of 1917 and the Sedition Act of 1918.

Radical unionism virtually collapsed, in large part because of Federal repression during World War I by means of the Espionage Act of 1917 and the Sedition Act of 1918.

In the years following the Red Scare of 1919-20, a variety of leftists, either anarchists, sympathizers with the Bolshevik Revolution, labor activists, or members of a communist or socialist party, were convicted for violating the Espionage Act of 1917 and Sedition Act of 1918 on the basis of their writings or statements.

In 1919, after a series of unattributed bombings and attempted assassinations of government officials, and judges ( later traced to militant Galleanist adherents of radical anarchist Luigi Galleani ), the US Department of Justice headed by Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, acting under the Sedition Act of 1918, began arresting thousands of foreign-born party members, many of whom the government deported.

* Sedition Act of 1918, also passed by the United States Congress

The Sedition Act of 1918 () was an Act of the United States Congress that extended the Espionage Act of 1917 to cover a broader range of offenses, notably speech and the expression of opinion that cast the government or the war effort in a negative light or interfered with the sale of government bonds.

Though the legislation enacted in 1918 is commonly called the Sedition Act, it was actually a set of amendments to the Espionage Act.

" Court decisions do not use the shorthand term Sedition Act, but the correct legal term for the law, the Espionage Act, whether as originally enacted or as amended in 1918.

In June 1918, the Socialist Party figure Eugene V. Debs of Indiana was arrested for violating the Sedition Act by undermining the government's conscription efforts.

* Text of the Sedition Act of 1918

He was sentenced to 18 months in prison under the Sedition Act of 1918.

* Sedition Act of 1918

The 1918 Amendment is commonly referred to as if it were a separate Act, the Sedition Act of 1918.

That same year, Tun Razak also announced the NEP, as well as some controversial amendments to the Sedition Act that prohibited discussion of repealing certain articles of the Constitution, including Article 153, even in the Houses of Parliament.

McKean designed and illustrated John Cale's autobiography What's Welsh for Zen, a further biography called Sedition and Alchemy, a box set of cd's called Circus Live, and used John's Welsh-by-way-of-New York voice as the narrator for his short film N.

Congress had also recently passed the Alien and Sedition Acts, criminalizing dissent and increasing the power of the executive branch under John Adams.

The Sedition Act criminalized any expression of opinion that used " disloyal, profane, scurrilous or abusive language " about the U. S. government, flag or armed forces.

The Espionage Act made it a crime to interfere with the operation or success of the military, and the Sedition Act forbade Americans to use " disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language " about the United States government, flag, or armed forces of the United States during war.

In writing the Kentucky Resolutions, Jefferson warned that, " unless arrested at the threshold ," the Alien and Sedition Acts would " necessarily drive these states into revolution and blood.

In writing the Kentucky Resolutions, Jefferson warned that, " unless arrested at the threshold ," the Alien and Sedition Acts would " necessarily drive these states into revolution and blood.

For his " Proper reply to a late scurrilous libel " ( Craftsman, 1731 ), an answer to " Sedition and defamation displayed ," he was challenged to a duel by Lord Hervey ; for another, " An answer to one part of an infamous libel entitled remarks on the Craftsman's indication of his two honourable patrons ," he was in July 1731 struck off the roll of privy councillors and dismissed from the commission of the peace in several counties.

In November 1798, David Brown led a group in Dedham, Massachusetts in setting up a liberty pole with the words, " No Stamp Act, No Sedition Act, No Alien Bills, No Land Tax, downfall to the Tyrants of America ; peace and retirement to the President ; Love Live the Vice President ," referring to then-President John Adams and Vice President Thomas Jefferson.