One Internet source (vaguely and broadly) defines sedition as: “An illegal action inciting resistance to lawful authority and tending to cause the disruption or overthrow of the government.”
Says another: “Actions or words intended to provoke or incite rebellion against government authority, or actual rebellion against government authority.”
According to Wikipedia, under the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798, “anyone ‘opposing or resisting any law of the United States, or any act of the President of the United States’ could be imprisoned for up to two years. It was also illegal to “write, print, utter, or publish” anything critical of the president or Congress.” [snip] “The Sedition Act was set to expire in 1801, coinciding with the end of the Adams administration. While this prevented its constitutionality from being directly decided by the Supreme Court, subsequent mentions of the Sedition Act in Supreme Court opinions have assumed that it would be unconstitutional today.”
QUESTION: When, if ever, was the last American found guilty of sedition? What was the actual offense?