---
kind: "section"
citation: "18 U.S.C. § 2384"
title: "18"
title_heading: "Crimes and Criminal Procedure"
number: "2384"
heading: "Seditious conspiracy"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/18/2384"
units:
  - "Part I — Crimes"
  - "Chapter 115 — Treason, Sedition, and Subversive Activities"
---

# §2384. Seditious conspiracy


If two or more [persons](/usc/18/229F.md?p=5) in any [State](/usc/18/31.md?p=a-9) or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the [United States](/usc/18/229F.md?p=9), conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the [United States](/usc/18/229F.md?p=9), or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the [United States](/usc/18/229F.md?p=9), or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the [United States](/usc/18/229F.md?p=9) contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.


## Source credit

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 808; July 24, 1956, ch. 678, § 1, 70 Stat. 623; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(N), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2148.)

## Notes

### Historical and Revision Notes

Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 6 (Mar. 4, 1909, ch. 321, § 6, 35 Stat. 1089).

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1994—Pub. L. 103–322 substituted “fined under this title” for “fined not more than $20,000”.

1956—Act July 24, 1956, substituted “$20,000” for “$5,000”, and “twenty years” for “six years”.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 1956 Amendment

Act July 24, 1956, ch. 678, § 3, 70 Stat. 624, provided that: “The foregoing amendments [amending this section and section 2385 of this title] shall apply only with respect to offenses committed on and after the date of the enactment of this Act [July 24, 1956].”