What is the content of the American Smith Act?

In the second half of 1930s, fascist groups mushroomed in the United States. By 1938, there were no fewer than 750 fascist groups. 1in the spring of 940, a huge fascist organization, the First Committee of the United States, was established. It has offices all over the country and has contacts with all fascist groups, claiming to have150,000 sympathizers. Some financial capitalists even plan to establish a fascist dictatorship in the United States. Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, the United States has formulated and supplemented laws on foreign immigrants many times. Faced with the rampant fascist forces at home and abroad, the US Congress enacted and passed the 1940 Alien Registration Law in April on the grounds of "restricting the activities of fascist groups". Congressman Smith put forward additional provisions to this law, so it was called the Smith Law. The bill mainly stipulates that deliberately encouraging and abetting others to subvert and undermine the US government by means of force or riots, assassination of officials, etc. Printing, distributing, disseminating or publicly disclosing handwritten or printed materials with the above purposes and tasks; Organize or assist in organizing any society or assembly to publicize, advocate or encourage violent subversion of the government; Anyone who conspires with others to commit any of the above acts will be punished by 65,438+00 years' imprisonment or a fine of 65,438+00,000 US dollars, or both. In addition, anyone born abroad who has not obtained American citizenship must register on the registration form expressing loyalty to the United States and press his handprint. According to this article, 3.6 million people have registered. After the war, the bill was mostly used as a legal basis for opposing American producers and infringing on the basic rights of Americans.