The Sedition Act became law on July 14, 1798, but it expired on March 3, 1801 under the Jefferson Administration. In 1918, Congress responded to concerns that the country’s wartime efforts in ...

The Sedition Act wouldn’t be the last time a fearful U.S. Congress preparing for war would try to silence opposition. In 1918, during World War I, Congress passed – and President Woodrow ...

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, ...

It was a not a bum rap. Debs had defiantly disobeyed a law he deemed unjust, the Sedition Act of 1918. The act was an anti-free speech measure passed at the behest of President Woodrow Wilson. The law ...

It was a not a bum rap. Debs had defiantly disobeyed a law he deemed unjust, the Sedition Act of 1918. The act was an anti-free speech measure passed at the behest of President Woodrow Wilson.