Charles Schenk was a socialist who was tried in the Supreme Court because he handed out flyers trying to convince men not to go to war if they were drafted. He pleaded that he had the right of the 1st Amendment, Freedom of Speech. Schenk had violated the Espionage Act, an act that tried to prevent support from U.S. enemies during wartime. Although the court said that Schenk would have been following the law by passing out those flyers if it hadn't been wartime, since it was wartime it was an act of "national insubordination".
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