How are Amendment I and the Sedition Act of 1918 similar and different?

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Ezra Underwood

29 June, 16:59

How are Amendment I and the Sedition Act of 1918 similar and different?

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Jaqueline Santos · Answer 1

Congress passed an amendment to the Espionage Act - called the Sedition Act of 1918 - which further infringed on First Amendment freedoms ... Federal officials charged Debs with violating the Espionage Act of 1917. The U. S. Supreme Court upheld his conviction in Debs v. United States (1919).