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Treason's chatty cousin — all incitement, no actual coup required.
means Speech or organizing that stirs people to rebel against or overthrow lawful authority, even if no actual revolt happens.
from From Latin seditio, a 'going apart' or civil discord, built from sed- (apart) and itio (a going, from ire, to go). Originally it described a faction literally splitting off from the body politic — Rome's word for a crowd peeling away from the government in protest or revolt — long before it narrowed into the legal crime of talk that incites rebellion.
- legal threshold
- stirring revolt counts, overthrowing isn't required
- vs treason
- treason needs action, sedition just needs words
- us law
- seditious conspiracy carries up to 20 years
- historical use
- 1798 act jailed editors for mocking the president