...to obstruct recruiting and enlistment in the armed forces. It was a crime, as well, to print or to publish any "disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive...about the form of government of the United States" or its constitution, military forces, flag, or uniform, or to publish any statement bringing the government...

...brought forth a fresh assault on the First Amendment. The Espionage Act of 1917 made it a crime to "willfully utter, print, write, or publish any disloyal,...profane, scurrilous, or abusive language" about the United States, or to "cause or attempt to cause, or incite or attempt to incite, insubordination, disloyalty,...

...United States by false reports, incitement to disloyalty, or obstruction to recruitment; but also to "willfully utter, print, write, or publish any disloyal,...profane, scurrilous, or abusive language" about the American form of government, the armed forces, the flag, the President, and the Constitution, or language...

...the next year to strengthen the provisions of the Espionage Act, made it a criminal offense to use “any disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language...government of the United States or the Constitution of the United States, or the flag of the United States, or the uniform of the Army or Navy,” or any language...

...the next year to strengthen the provisions of the Espionage Act, made it a criminal offense to use "any disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language...government of the United States or the Constitution of the United States, or the flag of the United States, or the uniform of the Army or Navy," or any language...

...became known as the Sedition Act of 1918, forbade any person, "when the United States is in war," • to willfully utter, print, write, or publish any disloyal,...government of the United States, or the Constitution of the United States, or the military or naval forces of the United States, or the flag of the United States,...

...1918, in the form of amendments to the Espionage Act, proposing to prohibit, among other new offenses, "any disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language...government of the United States, or the Constitution of the United States, or the flag of the United States, or the uniform of the Army or Navy," or any language...

...These powers were then made explicit in a May 1918 amendment known as the Sedition Act, which outlawed "any disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language...government of the United States, or the Constitution of the United States, or the flag of the United States," or language that might bring them "into contempt,...

...the Century Foundation's valuable book on our current predicament, "made it a criminal offense to use 'any disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language...government of the United States, or the Constitution of the United States, or the flag of the United States, or the uniform of the Army or Navy,' or any language...

...Augmented in May 1918 by the Sedition Act, which imposed fines and prison terms on anyone disposed to "utter, print, write or publish any disloyal, profane,...scurrilous or abusive language about the form of government in the United States," the Espionage Act served as pretext, from the first to the last day of America's...