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Abstract Roman judges had tremendous power. Their verdicts had serious consequences. But their petitioners could also be persuasive. They could exploit prior edicts and courtroom decisions to forge legal pathways attractive to judges. They could create situations that made it awkward for governors to rule against them.
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The Sedition Act of 1918 was an attempt to limit freedom of speech that opposed—or even questioned—U.S. intervention in World War I. Technically it was not a separate act but instead a series of amendments to the Espionage Act of 1917. That act had given the administration of Woodrow Wilson the power to imprison and fine people who interfered with the ...
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Abstract This chapter examines anti-Semitism and the struggle for civil rights under the Alien and Sedition Acts. Jews began as natural allies of George Washington and the Federalist party, but as the Federalists dabbled in anti-Semitism, Jews switched and joined Thomas Jefferson and the Democratic-Republicans.
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The threats from modern digital subversion and sedition
Journal of Cyber Policy, 2018David Omand
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