The Sedition Act extended the Espionage Act of 1917 and was enacted on May 16, 1918 to cover a broader range of offenses, notably speech and the expression of opinion that cast the government or ...

The Sedition Act of 1918. In 1918, Congress responded to concerns that the country’s wartime efforts in World War I could be compromised by political dissidents.

The Sedition Act expired on March 3, 1801, ... Other bills that restricted free speech, including the Espionage Act of 1917 and the Sedition Act of 1918, have come and gone as well.

Debs was behind bars in the federal penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia, serving a 10-year sentence for sedition. It was a not a bum rap. Debs had defiantly disobeyed a law he deemed unjust, the Sedition ...

Congress upped the ante the next year, when it passed something called the Sedition Act of 1918, which further made it a crime to 'willfully under print, write or publish any disloyal, profane, ...