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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
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