Trotskyists on Trial : : Free Speech and Political Persecution Since the Age of FDR / / Donna T. Haverty-Stacke.

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 distributin...

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Culture, Labor, History ; 1
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