Gordian Argumentative Essay: The Sedition Trial Of 1944

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The Sedition Trial of 1944 is a Gordian knot because the prosecutor of the trial had no real evidence against the defendants to prove any wrongdoing. The trial conducted to ruin the reputations of a few powerful people in America. The evidence produced a historical thesis that the government planned for over a year, the prosecutor of the trial wanted the jury to prove the defendants guilty with no real evidence against them, just based on the argument of what the defendants did or said in the prosecution’s evidence.

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