Blog of Talmage 19.3.2003

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2003-03-19

The Alien and Sedition Acts

Texts from the Yale Law School.

These acts are part of John Adams' legacy. I though that Abraham Lincoln used them in the Civil War to suspend the writ of habeascorpus ( summary on www.civil-liberties.com ) , but after a brief and superficial search, I haven't found evidence to support that claim.

For more on habeas corpus, see lectlaw.com , nolo.com , and Article I, Section 9, Clause 2 of the US Constitution .

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PBS: Civil Liberties after 9/11: Timeline

A history of attempts to curb civil liberties in the US.

As I post this, the link is slow, as if the site has been slashdotted .

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Sedition

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:

Sedition \Se*di"tion\, n. [OE. sedicioun, OF. sedition, F. s['e]dition, fr. L. seditio, originally, a going aside; hence, an insurrectionary separation; pref. se-, sed-, aside + itio a going, fr. ire, itum, to go. Cf. {Issue}.]

  1. The raising of commotion in a state, not amounting to insurrection; conduct tending to treason, but without an overt act; excitement of discontent against the government, or of resistance to lawful authority.

    • In soothing them, we nourish 'gainst our senate The cockle of rebellion, insolence, sedition. --Shak.
    • Noisy demagogues who had been accused of sedition. --Macaulay.
  2. Dissension; division; schism. [Obs.]
    • Now the works of the flesh are manifest, . . . emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies. --Gal. v. 19, 20.

Syn: Insurrection; tumult; uproar; riot; rebellion; revolt. See {Insurrection}.

From WordNet (r) 1.6 [wn]:

sedition n : an illegal action inciting resistance to lawful authority and tending to cause the disruption or overthrow of the government

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