Anarchy
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
The absence of all political government; by extension, Coufusiou in government. The absence of government; a state of society where there is no law or supreme power.
Spies v. People, 122 111.
253, 12 N. E. 865, 17 N. E. 89S, 3 Am. St. Hep. A social theory which regards the union of order with the absence of all direct government of man by man as the political ideal; absolute individual liberty.
Cent Diet
Taken in its proper sense, the word has nothing to do with disorder or crime, but in •the Act* of Congress of March.:. 1903, the word '•anarchists" is used synonymously with "persons who believe in or advocate the overthrow by force or violence of the ernment of the United States or of all government or of all forms of law or the assassination of public officials," and this would to be the popular sense attaching to the 1902, criminal anarchy is defined as the doctrine that organized government should be overthrown by force and violence, or by assassination of the executive head or of any of the executive officials of the government, by any unlawful means.
15 Rep. Am. Bar Assn. 210.
In U. S. v. Williams, 194 U. S. 294, 24 Sup. Ct. 719, 48 L. Ed. 979, it was held that oven though an alien anarchist only regarded the absence of government as a political ideal, yet when he sought to attain it by advocating a universal strike and discoursing upon "the legal murder of 1SS7" (Spies v. People, 122 111. 1, 12 N. E. SG5, 17 N. E. 898, 3 Am. St. Rep. 320) there was a justifiable inference that he contemplated the ultimate realization of his ideal by the use of force, or that his speeches were incitements to that end. And further, that even if "anarchists" should be interpreted to mean political philosophers innocent of evil intent, yet the tendency of the general exploitation of such views is so dangerous to the public weal that aliens who hold and advocate them would be undesirable additions to the population and their exclusion infringes none of the constitutional guaranties respecting freedom of speech, etc.
See Alien.