• Eugene V. Debs, Speech to the Jury (1918)

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What factor did he address regarding the constitution?

• He believed in the constitution • The revolutionary father understood that free speech, free press and the right of free assemblage by the people were fundamental principles in democratic government.

What did Debs want to do?

• Want to establish industrial and social democracy.

Sedition act 1918

• a crime to make spoken or printed statement intended to cast contempt scorn or disrepute on the form of gov or that advocate inference with war

Who is Eugene V. Debs?

• leader of Socialist party convicted for delivering anti war speech • Point out to the gov that the nation had never engage in war without internal opposition

Espionage Act of 1917

• prohibit spying and interfering with the draft, plus false statement that might impede military success

why did US enter WWI according to Woodrow Wilson?

• to make world safe for democracy, American intervention was follow by the most massive suppression of freedom


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