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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
)
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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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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}.]
- 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.
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In soothing them, we nourish 'gainst our senate The
cockle of rebellion, insolence, sedition.
--Shak.
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Noisy demagogues who had been accused of sedition.
--Macaulay.
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Dissension; division; schism. [Obs.]
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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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