Sedition vs. Treason

Seditionnoun

Organized incitement of rebellion or civil disorder against authority or the state, usually by speech or writing.

Seditionnoun

Insurrection or rebellion.

Seditionnoun

The raising of commotion in a state, not amounting to insurrection; conduct tending to treason, but without an overt act; excitement of discontent against the government, or of resistance to lawful authority.

Seditionnoun

Dissension; division; schism.

Seditionnoun

an illegal action inciting resistance to lawful authority and tending to cause the disruption or overthrow of the government

Sedition

Sedition is overt conduct, such as speech and organization, that tends toward rebellion against the established order. Sedition often includes subversion of a constitution and incitement of discontent toward, or insurrection against, established authority.

Treasonnoun

The crime of betraying one’s own country.

Treasonnoun

An act of treachery, betrayal of trust or confidence.

Treasonnoun

The offense of attempting to overthrow the government of the state to which the offender owes allegiance, or of betraying the state into the hands of a foreign power; disloyalty; treachery.

Treasonnoun

Loosely, the betrayal of any trust or confidence; treachery; perfidy.

Treasonnoun

a crime that undermines the offender's government

Treasonnoun

disloyalty by virtue of subversive behavior

Treasonnoun

an act of deliberate betrayal

Treason

Treason is the crime of attacking a state authority to which one owes allegiance. This typically includes acts such as participating in a war against one's native country, attempting to overthrow its government, spying on its military, its diplomats, or its secret services for a hostile and foreign power, or attempting to kill its head of state.