> From the website you linked to: "The main objective of the Alien Registration Act was to undermine the American Communist Party and other left-wing political groups in the United States."

Hmm... Not the one I thought I'd linked to. I'll see if I can find it again.

> Undermining one thing and making it illegal are two different things. It is legal to run for public office on a communist platform.

You might be right, but certainly it was my belief that that was not the case. Untill I can get around to doing more research, I'll hold the oppinion in abeyance.

> Regarding the Alien Registration Act and the American Communist Party, http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAcommunist.htm reads in part: "It was difficult for the prosecution to prove that the twelve men had broken the Alien Registration Act, as none of the defendants had ever openly called for violence or had been involved in accumulating weapons for a proposed revolution."

Interesting sidenote: In New Hampshire (again, so I understand) it is legal to enter into violent rebellion against the state. Which I suppose should be the core of the First Amendment rights.

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