US Sedition Act

C. G. Estabrook galliher at alexia.lis.uiuc.edu
Fri Nov 9 20:12:19 PST 2001


"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it."

--A. Lincoln, Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861

On Sat, 10 Nov 2001, Justin Schwartz wrote:


> >I thought there was a so-called right of revolution in the US :)
>
> Not in law.
>
> What do our
> >resident legal beagles think of this turn of events?
>
> What do you think we think? It sucks.
>
> The statement of the law in the article is accurate. You an advocate illegal
> acts in the abstract. You can constitutionally ber punished if you conspire
> to overthrow the government.
>
> jks



More information about the lbo-talk mailing list