In the days after the riots, police spies were out in force, creeping through the capital with their ears open for sedition. |
These varied from the trials and subsequent execution of radicals for treason, to trials for sedition and seditious libel. |
Can an author with reason complain that he is cramped and shackled if he is not at liberty to publish blasphemy, bawdry, or sedition? |
The aspect of sedition that deals with inciting violence and lawlessness is more appropriately part of public order law. |
On December 18, 1792 Thomas Paine was tried in absentia in England for sedition, and convicted. |
This law defined abolitionist petitions as agents of sedition and violent insurrection. |