| Michael Linfield - 1990 - 312 pages
...1940. This act, formally known as the Alien Registration Act of 1940, was "the most drastic restriction on freedom of speech ever enacted in the United States during peace." a Title I of the Act did not deal with aliens at all; it was modeled after New York's Criminal Anarchy... | |
| Chip Berlet, Matthew Nemiroff Lyons - 2000 - 516 pages
...Registration Act (the Smith Act), which free speech law expert Zechariah Chafee, Jr., termed "the most drastic restrictions on freedom of speech ever enacted in the United States during peace." Sedition provisions of the Smith Act banned speech advocating the violent overthrow of the US government... | |
| George Anastaplo - 2005 - 918 pages
...little later: "Not until months later did I for one realize that this statute contains the most drastic restrictions on freedom of speech ever enacted in the United States during peace. . . . The act gives us a sedition act for everybody, especially citizens of the United States." [Carl... | |
| Louis Fisher - 2009 - 386 pages
...its passage. Not until months later did I for one realize that this statute contains the most drastic restrictions on freedom of speech ever enacted in the United States during peace. It is no more limited to the registration of aliens than the Espionage Act of 1917 was limited to spying.... | |
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