Sedition Act

[Arne Herl�v Petersen]

Does anyone know if the Sedition Act of 1918 is still on the books? Can
people in the US still get 20 years of prison for criticizing the
government? Is this still considered constitutional?

The Sedition Act of 1918

 
>From The United States Statutes at Large, V. 40. (April 1917-March
1919). Washington: Government Printing Office, 1919.
 


Sec. 3. ... whoever when the United States is at war, shall willfully
cause or attempt to cause, or incite or attempt to incite,
insubordination, disloyalty, mutiny, or refusal of duty, in the military
or naval forces of the United States, or shall willfully obstruct or
attempt to obstruct the recruiting or enlistment services of the United
States, and whoever, when the United States is at war, shall willfully
utter, print, write or publish any disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or
abusive language about the form of government of the United States or
the Constitution of the United States, or the military or naval forces
of the United States, or the flag of the United States, or the uniform
of the Army or Navy of the United States into contempt, scorn,
contumely, or disrepute, or shall willfully utter, print, write, or
publish any language intended to incite, provoke, or encourage
resistance to the United States, or to promote the cause of its enemies,
or shall willfully display the flag of any foreign enemy, or shall
willfully by utterance, writing, printing, publication, or language
spoken, urge, incite, or advocate any curtailment of production in this
country of any thing or things, product or products, necessary or
essential to the prosecution of the war in which the United States may
be engaged, with intent by such curtailment to cripple or hinder the
United States in the prosecution of war, and whoever shall willfully
advocate, teach, defend, or suggest the doing of any of the acts or
things in this section enumerated, and whoever shall by word or act
support or favor the cause of any country with which the United States
is at war or by word or act oppose the cause of the United States
therein, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $10,000 or the
imprisonment for not more than twenty years, or both