Sedition
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Meaning of Sedition
The wilful and knowing utterance, writing , or publication of disloyal, scurrilous , or abusive matter against the United States or a state , or the flag, military forces, or uniform of the nation , which matter is designed and calculated to bring them into contempt , which advocates, incites, fosters, or inquiries antagonism, opposition and hostility to organized government , or matter which obstructs or interferes with the national recruiting or enlistment services. See Gilbert v Minnesota, 254 U.S. 325, 41 S.Ct. 125, 65 L.Ed. 287.
Sedition Alternative Definition
In criminal law. The raising commotions or disturbances in the state. 195 Mich. 293. It is a revolt against legitimate authority. Ersk. Inst. 4. 4. 14; Dig. 49. 16. 3. § 19, not amounting to insurrection. Excitement of discontent against the government, or of resistance to lawful authority; conduct tending to treason, but without an overt act. 195 Mich. 293. The distinction between "sedition" and "treason" consists in this, that though the ultimate object of sedition is a violation of the public peace, or at least such a course of measures as evidently engenders it, yet it does not aim at direct and open violence against the laws, or the subversion of the constitution. Alls. Crim. Law, 580. The obnoxious act of July 14, 1798 (1 Story, U. S, Laws, 543), was called the "sedition law," because Its profesged object was to prevent disturbances. In the Scotch law, sedition is either verbal or real. Verbal is inferred from the uttering of words tending to create discord between the king and his people; real sedition is generally committed by convocating together any considerable number of people, without lawful authority, uiider the pretense of redressing some public grievance, to the disturbing of the public peace. Ersk. Inst. 4, 4. 14.
Synonyms of Sedition
noun
apostasy
defection
defiance
desertion
disloyalty
disobedience
dissidence
infidelity
infraction
insubordination
insurgence
insurrection
motus
mutiny
noncompliance
overthrow
rebellion
recreance
recreancy
recusancy
resistance to authority
revolt
revolution
riot
rising
seditio
seditiousness
subversion
tergiversation
treachery
treason
underground activity
uprising
violation
Associated Concepts: alien and sedition acts
seditious libel
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Latin seditio, a going apart, dissention. Conduct tending toward treason, but wanting an overt act; attempts made, by meetings or speeches, or by publications, to disturb the tranquillity of the state, which do not amount to treason. Abbott's Law Dictionary. Called seditious conspiracies and libels.
Note: This legal definition of Sedition in the Dictionary of Law (English and American Jurisprudence) is from 1893.
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