Radio Rootz' This Day in History
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Key 1
The U.S. Congress passed the Sedition Act of 1918, which forbade Americans to publicly disagree with the government or armed forces during wartime. The act also permitted the government to withhold mail from anyone who objected to its wartime policies. The Sedition Act went to new extremes by criminalizing the very acts of speaking, writing, and publishing any negative material regarding the government. This is particularly ironic seeing as how the First Amendment states quote, “Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech or of the press.” Well I guess our constitution is like a big treaty, and we all know how our government deals with those.
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