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Smith Act


Subject History

Place Northern America » United States of America

DOI: 10.1111/b.9781577180999.1997.x


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(28 June 1940) Congress required aliens to register annually and strengthened deportation procedures. It also outlawed teaching or advocating the violent overthrow of the US government, and organizing groups for that purpose. Its constitutionality was affirmed in D ennis et al . v. U nited S tates , but severely restricted by Y ates v. U nited S tates. Yates set such strict standards for winning convictions for sedition that the government virtually stopped seeking prosecutions under the law after 1957. ... log in or subscribe to read full text

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A Dictionary of American History



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