Article: Suspension of Disbelief.(Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime From the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism)(Book Review)

Article: Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition ...
Constitutional Commentary;  December 22, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... with France and the Sedition Act of 1798, through the Civil War, World War I, World War II ... Lincoln. During World War I, dissenters were ... the victims of the Sedition Act could only get two years in jail. In World War I, sentences between ...

Dictionary definition: Sedition Act
The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military;      291 words ...Sedition Act a law enacted on May 16, 1918, during World War I , to restrict public opinion of the U.S. war effort. An amendment to the Espionage Act of 1917, it prohibited spoken and ...

Article: Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime, From the Sedition ...
Stanford Law Review;  May 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... IN WARTIME: FROM THE SEDITION ACT OF 1798 TO THE WAR ON ... historical vignettes--the Sedition Act of 1798 (pp. 15 ... pp. 79-134); World War I and the ensuing Red ... pp. 135-234); World War II (pp. 235-310 ...

Article: Second fiddle to fear.(Alien and Sedition Act of ...
Phi Delta Kappan;  April 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... at the beginning of the 21st. How do I explain my students' response? They had not grown up during the Cold War or during World War II or during the Depression. And the introduction of vulnerability into their lives had been intense and sudden. New York ...

Article: Student government tries to pass sedition act
University Wire;  February 19, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... According to legal experts, the SA Sedition Act would have been an unconstitutional ... Liberties Union of Wisconsin, condemned the Sedition Act. "It is distressing that a university ... The ACLU's condemnation of the Sedition Act came just days after its author, Sen ...

Article: Sedition Act Trials
American Eras;      700+ words ...Sedition Act Trials Political Parties. Despite the ... to the United States. Finally, the Sedition Act was directed toward American citizens ... disrepute. ” In some ways the Sedition Act was ahead of its time. An individual ...

Article: John Marshall, the Sedition Act, and free speech in ...
Texas Law Review;  March 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ...John Marshall, the Sedition Act, and Free Speech in the Early Republic ... of the constitutionality of the Sedition Act in an attempt to defeat adoption ... a congressional candidate to the Sedition Act, the recent biography, John Marshall ...