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