Is the smith act the 1st amendment?
Your question needs clarification, but here is the smith act if that will help.~ The Alien Registration Act or Smith Act (18 U.S.C. ยง 2385) of 1940 is a United States federal statute that makes it a criminal offense for anyone to ” knowingly or willfully advocate, abet, advise or teach the duty, necessity, desirability or propriety of overthrowing the Government of the United States or of any State by force or violence, or for anyone to organize any association which teaches, advises or encourages such an overthrow, or for anyone to become a member of or to affiliate with any such association. ” It also required all non-citizen adult residents to register with the government; within four months, 4,741,971 aliens had registered under the Act’s provisions. The Act is best known for its use against political organizations and figures, mostly on the left. Prosecutions continued until a series of United States Supreme Court decisions in 1957 threw out numerous convictions under the Smith Ac
