Yates v. United States

The Case

In 1951, 14 people were accused of criminal actions, and charged for violating the Smith act passed by the government. The Smith act was an act passed that stated that people may not overthrow, or take down any part of government. A person named Weather Yates, who was a leader of a political party, stated that her party was taking part in the so call bringing down of the government. But the truth is that they only believed in bringing it down, they were planning and were practicing it, which believes like I said. But in the constitution and the smith act themselves, doesn’t state that the person can’t believe in destroying it, but the only way to be charged of criminal acts was to actually do the action. So Weather Yates and his or her party were acquitted.

For the decision (Manuel)

In m opinion i think that the decision of the  case was fair. The reason why i think that the case was fair is becasue they didnt really do any sort of harm to the government. They didn’t casue any damage. they just beileved in the action to bring it down. so you can’t just badly accuse someone of beleiving in something. 

Against the decision(Andres)

I dont think that its is very constitutional to let any future criminals go. Because if you think of it, you could have cought a very bad criminal ,becasue all criminals plan before they act. If you find someone with foul files that have stated information about the the government you can use that as evidence.

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