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The Alien and Sedition Acts were a set of four laws enacted in 1798 that applied restrictions to immigration and speech in the United States. [a] The Naturalization Act of 1798 increased the requirements to seek citizenship, the Alien Friends Act of 1798 allowed the president to imprison and deport non-citizens, the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 gave the president additional powers to detain non ...
Following a recommendation from the New Zealand Law Commission, [57] the New Zealand government announced on 7 May 2007 that the sedition law would be repealed. [58] The Crimes (Repeal of Seditious Offences) Amendment Act 2007 was passed on 24 October 2007, and entered into force on 1 January 2008.
The Sedition Act of 1918 (Pub. L. 65–150, 40 Stat. 553, enacted May 16, 1918) was an Act of the United States Congress that extended the Espionage Act of 1917 to cover a broader range of offenses, notably speech and the expression of opinion that cast the government or the war effort in a negative light or interfered with the sale of government bonds.
In common law jurisdictions, seditious conspiracy is an agreement by two or more persons to do any act with the intention to excite hatred or contempt against the persons or institutions of state, to excite the alteration by unlawful means of a state or church matter established by law, to raise discontent among the people, or to promote ill will and enmity between classes.
Penalties for sedition were increased in the local national security legislation that Hong Kong’s opposition-free legislature passed in March, which replaced the colonial-era sedition law. Under ...
In addition to considering the use of the military to carry out deportations, Trump and his allies have suggested using an obscure section of the 1798 Alien and Sedition Acts -- a set of 18th ...
The law made it a criminal offense to criticize the production of war materiel with intent to hinder the progress of American military efforts. [1] The defendants had been arrested in 1919 for printing and distributing anti-war leaflets in New York City. After their conviction under the Sedition Act, they appealed on free speech grounds.
Sedition and seditious libel were abolished by section 73 of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009. [4] Sedition by an alien is still an offence under the Aliens Restriction (Amendment) Act 1919. [15] The United States' Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 broke with the common law precedent of the time, in that it allowed for truth as a defense, though ...