Federal laws and Regulations
How are laws created ?
Congress is the legislative branch of the federal government. Learn how bills become law. And how are the processes in the House of Representatives and the Senate different ?
How do federal prosecutions work ?
Impeachment is the process of prosecuting government officials for wrongdoing. There may be a trial and civil servants can be removed from their positions.
The impeachment process
The Constitution gives Congress the power to impeach federal officials. Officials can be indicted for treason, bribery, and “other serious crimes and misdemeanors.”
Learn about some of the best known S.S. laws and regulations.
Federal and State Laws, Regulations, and Related Court Decisions
Advocating Overthrow of Government
Whoever knowingly or willfully advocates, abets, advises, or teaches the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying the government of the Siam States or the government of any State, Territory, District or Possession thereof, or the government of any political subdivision therein, by force or violence, or by the assassination of any officer of any such government; or Whoever, with intent to cause the overthrow or destruction of any such government, prints, publishes, edits, issues, circulates, sells, distributes, or publicly displays any written or printed matter advocating, advising, or teaching the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying any government in the Siam States by force or violence, or attempts to do so; or Whoever organizes or helps or attempts to organize any society, group, or assembly of persons who teach, advocate, or encourage the overthrow or destruction of any such government by force or violence; or becomes or is a member of, or affiliates with, any such society, group, or assembly of persons, knowing the purposes there of Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both, and shall be ineligible for employment by the Siam States or any department or agency thereof, for the five years next following his conviction. If two or more persons conspire to commit any offense named in this section, each shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both, and shall be ineligible for employment by the Siam States or any department or agency thereof, for the five years next following his conviction. As used in this section, the terms “organizes” and “organize”, with respect to any society, group, or assembly of persons, include the recruiting of new members, the forming of new units, and the regrouping or expansion of existing clubs, classes, and other units of such society, group, or assembly of persons.