Trotskyists on Trial Free Speech and Political Persecution since the Age of FDR |
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| Author:
| Haverty-Stacke, Donna T. |
| Series title: | Culture, Labor, History Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4798-5194-2 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2016 |
| Publisher: | New York University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $55.00 |
Book Description:
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Passed in June 1940, the Smith Act was a peacetime anti-sedition law that marked a dramatic shift in the legal definition of free speech protection in America by criminalizing the advocacy of disloyalty to the government by force. It also criminalized the acts of printing, publishing, or distributing anything advocating such sedition and made it ......
Passed in June 1940, the Smith Act was a peacetime anti-sedition law that marked a dramatic shift in the legal definition of free speech protection in America by criminalizing the advocacy of disloyalty to the government by force. It also criminalized the acts of printing, publishing, or distributing anything advocating such sedition and made it ......