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dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
Tue Mar 10, 2015, 02:48 PM Mar 2015

Does this definition of sedition more closely fit what the Gang of 47 did?

conduct or speech inciting people to rebel against the authority of a state or monarch.
synonyms: rabble-rousing, incitement to rebel, subversion, troublemaking, provocation;
rebellion, insurrection, mutiny, insurgence, civil disorder

We used to have a Sedition Act, but it was repealed in 1920.

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