definition of sedition in the constitution
The raising commotions or disturbances in the state; it is a revolt against legitimate authority Ersk. Princ. Laws Scotl. b. 4 t. 4 s. 14; Dig. Lib. 49 t. 16 1. 3 19. 2. The distinction between sedition and treason consists in this that though its ultimate object is a violation of the public peace or at least such a course of measures as evidently engenders it yet it does not aim at direct and open violence against the laws or the subversion of the constitution. Alis.