What is the definition of Seditious Libel?
Written or spoken words, pictures, signs, or other forms of communication that tend to defame, discredit, criticize, impugn, embarrass, confront, or question the senate, its policies, or its officials; speech that advocate the overthrow of the government by force or severity or that incites people to variation the government by unlawful vehicle. The crime of seditious libel was used by the British Crown to stifle political opponent and consolidate power in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. English jury were permitted lone to decide the bare issue of whether or not the defendant had communicated the speech within public; judges established the legal issue of whether the communication constituted seditious LIBEL . Truth be not a defense, and malicious intent to bring SEDITION was not an component of the crime. In the United States, legal experts disputed whether the English COMMON LAW of seditious libel remained intact after the American Revolution. FEDERALIST PARTY member in Con
