The acts were denounced by Democratic-Republicans and ultimately helped them to victory in the 1800 election, when Thomas Jefferson defeated the incumbent President Adams. The Sedition Act and the Alien Friends Act were allowed to expire in 1800 and 1801, respectively. The Alien Enemies Act, however, remains in effect as 50 USC Sections 21–24.
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It is sometimes loosely translated as sedition, although the law bans the incitement of hatred against a segment of the population. Segment of the population meaning, for example, a race or religion.
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Sedition often includes subversion of a constitution and incitement of discontent (or resistance) to lawful authority. Sedition may include any commotion, though not aimed at direct and open violence against the laws.
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Text of the Sedition Act. The Alien and Sedition Acts were four bills that were passed by the Federalists in the 5th United States Congress and signed into law by President John Adams in 1798, the result of the French Revolution and during an undeclared naval war with France, later known as the Quasi-War.
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Sedition is defined by Section 124A of the Indian Penal code. The section had been inserted into the IPC by Imperial Legislative Council Act No. 27 of 1870. The original section was substituted with a new one by Act 4 of 1898.
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The Alien Act and the Sedition Act were meant to guard against this perceived threat of anarchy. They were a major political issue in the elections of 1798 and 1800. They were very controversial in their own day, as they remain to the present day.
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A seditionist is one who engages in or promotes the interests of sedition. Typically, sedition is considered a subversive act, and the overt acts that may be prosecutable under sedition laws vary from one legal code to another.
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Printable Version. In his war message to Congress, President Wilson had warned that the war would require a redefinition of national loyalty. There were millions of men and women of German birth and native sympathy who live amongst us, he said.
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The radical labor organization, the International Workers of the World (IWW), never recovered from government attacks during World War I. In September 1917, the Justice Department staged massive raids on IWW officers, arresting 169 of its veteran leaders.
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Radicals were not the only one to suffer harassment. Robert Goldstein, a motion picture producer, had made a movie about the American Revolution called The Spirit of '76, before the United States entered the war. When he released the picture after the declaration of war, he was accused of undermining American morale.
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what is the the sedition act
The Sedition Acts were four bills passed by the Federalists in the 5th United States Congress and signed into law by President John Adams in 1798.  The sedition act is four bills that were passed by the Federalists in the 5th United States Congress and signed into law by President John Adams in 1798.