Generally, a person may be punished for sedition only when he or she makes statements that create a Clear and Present Danger to rights that the government may lawfully protect (schenck v. united states, 249 U.S. 47, 39 S. Ct. 247, 63 L. Ed. 470 [1919]).
The epidemic reached its zenith in the years 1348 to 1350, though the disease never vanished entirely. It is widely believed that the cause of the Black Death was bubonic plague, an infectious and fatal illness spread by rodents and the fleas infesting them.
when historians refer to the black death they mean the specific outbreak of plague that took place in europe in the mid 14th centuryt is estimated that approximately 20 million people died in europe from the black death this is about one third of the population many cities lost more than 40 % of their residents paris lost half and venice hamburg and bremen are estimated to have lost at least 60 % of their populations