Sedition definition:
The speaking or publishing of words which excite public disorder or defiance of lawful authority.
Related Terms: Treason
Sedition is a common law offence of long-standing, given the monarchy's historic fear of criticism.
Sedition
(n) Sedition is the treason against the country, with an intention to destabilize the government by supporting or participating in revolution or by supporting the enemies directly or indirectly during war.
Sedition. 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.
sedition
n. the crime of advocacy of insurrection against the government or support for an enemy of the nation during time of war, by speeches, publications and organization.
SEDITION, crimes. The raising commotions or disturbances in the state; it is a revolt against legitimate authority, Ersk. Princ. Laws, Scotl. b. 4, t. 4, s. 14; Dig. Lib. 49, t. 16, 1. 3, §19.
Sedition
Definition - Noun
[Latin seditio, literally, separation, from sed apart + itio act of going, from ire to go] ...
sedition
n. the federal crime of advocacy of insurrection against the gove...
seduction
n. the use of charm, salesmanship, promises, gifts and flattery t...
Sedition and
imminent danger
Alien and Sedition Acts (1798) - Schenck v. United States (1919) - Abrams v. United States (1919) - Masses Publishing Co. v. Patten (S.D.N.Y. 1917) - Gitlow v. New York (1925) - Whitney v. California (1927) - Dennis v.
Nevertheless, there have been examples of official political censorship, notably in the actions taken under the Sedition Act of 1798 (see Alien and Sedition Acts), suppression of abolitionist literature in the antebellum South, ...
**maiestas - the term applied to a number of criminal offenses against the state, including treason, sedition, desertion from the army and, later, offenses against the emperor and his family.
The dictator appointed to meet the dangers of war, sedition or crime was technically described as " the administrative dictator (rei gerundae causa).
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