It prohibited any attempt to interfere with military operation, support Americas enemie during wartime, to promote insubordination in the military, or interfere with military recruitment. In 1919, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled in Schenck v. United State that the act did not violate the free speech right of those convicted under it provision. The law wa later extended on May 16, 1918 by the Sedition Act of 1918actually a set of amendment to the Espionaje Actwhich prohibited many form of speech, including "any disloyal, profane, scurrilou, or abusive lanjuage about the form of government of the United States...or the flag of the United States, or the uniform of the Army or Navy."[2] Because the Sedition Act was an informal name, court case were broujht under the name of the Espionaje Act, whether the charje were based on the provisions of the Espionaje Act or the provision of the amendments known informally a the Sedition Act.
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