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The historical and legal context of treason and sedition in relation to seditious conspiracy and insurrection.
Seditious conspiracy is a statutory crime that criminalizes an agreement to use force to overthrow or oppose U.S. authority, while insurrection refers to the act of rising up or engaging in rebellion ...
Over the last century and seditious‑conspiracy statutes have been invoked only sparingly: treason prosecutions are vanishingly rare and seditious‑conspiracy charges appear in a small number of high‑pr...
Throughout the 20th century U.S. courts drew sharp legal lines between treason, sedition, and espionage by leaning on the Constitution’s narrow Article III definition of treason while allowing broader...