This work provides an authoritative survey of America's long and turbulent history of rebellion, sedition, and treason against government authority and institutions.
Crimes against the State is an even-handed and illuminating one-stop resource for understanding acts of rebellion and sedition against government authorities and institutions throughout US history, as well as the motivations driving those actions. Special care is taken to differentiate between hostile acts and actors that seek to overthrow or otherwise damage the state and/or targeted demographic groups through violence and acts and actors that seek to defy, reform, or improve laws and institutions of the state through nonviolent action.
Within these pages, readers will 1) learn how to differentiate between sedition, insurrection, treason, domestic terrorism, espionage, and other acts meant to injure or overthrow the government; 2) gain a deeper understanding of laws, policies, and events that have aroused violent or nonviolent opposition; 3) gain insights into perspectives and motivations of individuals and organizations; and 4) learn about state responses to these challenges and threats, from martial law to criminal prosecutions to new laws and reforms.
Table of Contents:
I. Acknowledgements
II. Timeline/Chronology
III. Introduction
IV. Entries A-Z (as follows):
Abel, Rudolph
Abrams v. United States (1919)
Aid and Comfort Clause (Aid to Enemies of the State)
Al-Arian, United States v.
Alien & Sedition Acts
Alien Act
Alien Enemies Act
American Civil War – Pardons and Amnesty
American Civil War and Treason
American Revolution and Treason
Ames, Aldrich
Anarchy, criminal
Anthrax Attacks, 2001
Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (1996)
Arnold, Benedict
Assassination
Axis Sally (Gillars, Mildred)
Bacon’s Rebellion
Battle of Athens, Tennessee (1946)
Battle of Liberty Place, New Orleans (1874)
Booth, John Wilkes
Boston Marathon Bombing (2013)
Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969)
Brown, John
Bundy Standoffs
Burr, Aaron & Treason (Burr Conspiracy)
Burr, United States v.
Capitol Insurrection, January 6, 2021
Carlisle, United States v. (1872)
Chin, Larry Wu-Tai
Christiana Revolt (1851)
Civil Disobedience and Crimes against the State
Civil Rights Movement and Crimes against the State
Clear and Present Danger Test
Colfax Massacre (1873)
Communist Control Act (1954)
Conspiracy (Crime)
Cook, John
Copeland, John
Coppoc, Edwin
Corruption of Blood (concept contained in U.S. Constitution Treason Clause)
Cramer v. United States (1945)
Crimes Act of 1790
Criminal Syndicalism
Cruikshank, United States v. (1876)
Cybersecurity
Davis, Jefferson, treason prosecution
De Jonge v. Oregon (1937)
Debs v. United States (1919)
Dennis v. United States (1951)
Disqualification Clause
Dorr Rebellion (1844)
Enforcement Acts, including the Ku Klux Klan Act (1870-71)
English Statute of Treasons (1351)
Espionage Act of 1917 and Sedition Act of 1918
Espionage, generally
Eufaula Election Massacre and Spring Hill Riot (1874)
Ex Parte Bollman & Swarthout (1807)
Ex Parte Milligan (1866)
Ex Parte Quirin (1942)
Ex Parte Vallandigham (1864)
First Red Scare and the Palmer Raids
Flag Disrespect as Crime Against the State
Fries’s Rebellion (1799)
Fuchs, Klaus
Fuerza Armadas de Liberacion Nacional (FALN)
Gabriel’s Rebellion (1800)
Gadahn, Adam
Gitlow v. New York (1925)
Greathouse, United States v. (1863)
Green Corn Rebellion (1917)
Green, Shields
Greenwood, NY Insurrection (1882)
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld (2004)
Hanssen, Robert
Hanway, United States v.
Hasan, Nidal Malik
Haupt v. United States
Haymarket Affair of 1886
Hess v. Indiana (1973)
Hirabayashi v. United States (1943)
Hiss, Alger
Homeland Security Act 2002
Hoxie v. United States (1808)
Insurrection Act
Insurrection, generally
Intelligence Identities Protection Act
Internal Security Act of 1950
Jefferson, Thomas
John Brown’s Raid
Kaczynski, Theodore (Unabomber Case)
Kawakita, United States v. (1952)
Keyishian v. Board of Regents (1966)
Korematsu v. United States (1944)
Leaks of National Defense Information
Levying War
Lincoln Assassination
Lindh, John Walker, the “American Taliban”
Luther v. Borden (1849)
Martial Law
Material Support Crimes
McKinley Assassination
Militia Movement (Modern)
Mitchell, United States v. (1795)
Monti, United States v. (1958)
Mumford, William Bruce
Mutiny
Near v. Minnesota (1931)
Nelson, Pennsylvania v. (1956)
New York Times v. United States (1971)
New York v. Lynch (NY 1814)
O’Brien, United States v. (1968)
Oklahoma City Bombing
Padilla, United States v. (incl. Rumsfeld v. Padilla (2004) and Padilla v. Hanft (2006))
Pelton, Ronald William
Pentagon Papers
Perjury, False Statements, and Obstruction of Justice
Pollard, Jonathan
Posse Comitatus Act
Pottawatomie Creek Massacre, 1856
Puerto Rican Nationalist Party Revolt
Radio Traitors and Anti-State Propaganda During World War Two
Rahman, United States v. (1999)
Rebellion
Riots and Incitement to Riot
Rosenberg, Julius and Ethel
Ruby Ridge
Rudolph, Eric
Sabotage
Sacco & Vanzetti case (Massachusetts 1921)
Salazer, Hipolito
Schenck v. United States (1919)
Second Red Scare (McCarthyism)
Sedition Act of 1798
Sedition Laws, generally
Seditious Conspiracy
September 11, 2001
Shay’s Rebellion
Smith Act
Sovereign Citizen Movement
Speech as Crime Against the State
Stevens, Aaron
Surratt, Mary
Terrorism
Texas v. White (1869)
The Prize Cases
Threats against the State and Officials
Tokyo Rose (D’Aquino, Iva)
Treason
Turner, Nat
United States v. United States District Court (1972)
USA PATRIOT Act
Vesey Rebellion (1822) Vesey, Denmark
Virginia v. Brown (1859)
Waco
Walker, John Anthony, Jr.
War of 1812 and Treason
Weapons of Mass Destruction, domestic use of
Weather Underground (Weathermen)
West Virginia Coal Wars
Whiskey Rebellion
Whitney v. California (1927)
Wilmington Insurrection of 1898
Wolverine Watchmen, Plot to Kidnap Governor Gretchen Whitmer
World Trade Center Bombing of 1993
Yates v. United States (1956)
Year of the Spy
Zenger, John Peter (1735 Trial for Sedition)
