Law

By: Woodrow Wilson

Date: May 16, 1918

Source: Wilson, Woodrow. Sedition Act, 1918. United States Statutes at Large, vol. 40, April 1917–March 1919. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1919, 553–554. Available online at http://azimuth.harcourtcollege.com/history/ayers/chapter22/... ; website home page: http://www.azimuth.harcourtcollege.com (accessed April 9, 2003). About the Author: Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924), the twenty-eighth president of the United States and former president of Princeton University, was drafted as head of the Democratic ticket in 1912 and won against a split Republican Party with just over 40 percent of the vote. Progressive legislation at home, the Great War abroad, and the...