>>I don't see how peaceful protest (which is, of course, protected by the First Amendment) can ever be sedition. Nor can contacting legislators in an effort to influence their votes.
Sedition, like good business, is output-based, not input-based. Is the unrest and protest directed against lawful mandate (as opposed to make-it-up-as-you-go-along mandate?)
Sedition: "In law, sedition is overt conduct, such as speech and organization, that tends toward insurrection against the established order. Sedition often includes subversion of a constitution and incitement of discontent (or resistance) to lawful authority."
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
