Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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Sedition
n. An agreement, communication, or other preliminary activity aimed at inciting treason or some lesser commotion against public authority; advocacy aimed at inciting or producing - and likely to incite or produce -imminent lawless action. ( At common law, sedition included defaming a member of the royal family or the government. The difference between sedition and treason is that the former is committed by preliminary steps, while the latter entails some overt act for carrying out the plan. But of course, if the plan is merely for some small commotion, even accomplishing the plan does not amount to treason. - seditious, ddj. Cf. TREASON.
alien and sedition acts
hist. four statutes passed in 1798 designed to silence critics of the federalist party by tightening residency requirements for citizenship, granting to the president the power to jail aliens considered dangerous to the country, and restricting freedoms of the press and speech by criminalizing speech hostile to the government. 0 all the acts had expired or been repealed by 1802.