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Abrams v. United States
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| Supreme Court of the United States | ||||||||
| Argued October 21-22, 1919 Decided November 10, 1919 | ||||||||
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| Defendants' criticism of U.S. involvement in World War I was not protected by the First Amendment, because they advocated a strike in munitions production and the violent overthrow of the government. | ||||||||
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| U.S. Const. amend. I; 50 U.S.C. § 33 (1917) |
Abrams v. United States, 250 U.S. 616 (1919), was a decision of the United States Supreme Court involving the Sedition Act of 1918, which made it a criminal offense to criticize the U.S. federal government. The Court ruled 7-2 that the Act did not violate civil rights under the First Amendment, with Justices Oliver Wendell Holmes and Louis Brandeis dissenting. The case was overturned during the Vietnam War era.
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