It set criminal penalties for advocating the overthrow of the US government by force or violence, and required all non-citizen adult residents to register with ...

Smith Act, U.S. federal law passed in 1940 that made it a criminal offense to advocate the violent overthrow of the government or to organize or be a member ...

1. The Alien Registration Act of 1940, usually called the Smith Act because the anti-sedition section was authored by Representative Howard W. Smith of Virginia ...

1 янв. 2009 г. · The Smith Act forbade any attempts to “advocate, abet, advise, or teach” the violent destruction of the US government.

An Act to prohibit certain subversive activities; to amend certain provisions of law with respect to the admission and deportation of aliens.

The Smith Act trials of Communist Party leaders in New York City from 1949 to 1958 were the result of US federal government prosecutions in the postwar ...

The Smith Act is actually not a legislative act at all, it is simply the advocacy section of the Alien Registration Act of 1940 (The Smith Act, 1956, p. 2).

First, all seven defendants were charged with entering into a conspiracy to advocate the overthrow of the United States government (illegal under the Smith Act) ...

Becker, Constitional Law: Interpretation of the Smith Act, 42 Marq. L. Rev. 125 (1958). Available at: https://scholarship.law.marquette.edu/mulr/vol42/iss1/16.

The US Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948, popularly referred to as the “Smith-Mundt Act,” specifies the terms in which the U.S. government can ...