US restrictions on political leaflets -- cannot advocate "disloyalty to or overthrow" of US government

There are also restrictions on leaflets and handbills in US cities.
For the municipal bylaws of Mesa, Arizona (my emphasis):

"It shall be unlawful for any person to post, hand out, transmit,
distribute, or place any sign or any commercial or noncommercial
handbill which may reasonably tend to incite riot or other public
disorder or which advocates DISLOYALTY TO OR OVERTHROW OF THE
GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OR OF THIS STATE and is directed to
producing or inciting imminent lawless action or is likely to produce
or incite such action."
http://mesaaz.gov/search/default.aspx?cx=015015829240626729465%3Az3vghkx_ztm&cof=FORID%3A11%3B&ie=UTF-8&q=handbills

From Beverly Hills, Michigan:

"It shall be unlawful for any person to post, to handout, distribute
or transmit any sign, or any commercial or non commercial handbill:

"(a) Which may reasonably tend to incite riot or other public
disorder, or which advocates DISLOYALTY TO OR THE OVERTHROW OF THE
GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OR OF THIS STATE by means of any
artifice, scheme, or violence, or which urges any unlawful conduct, or
encourages or tends to encourage a breach of the public peace or good
order of the community."
http://www.villagebeverlyhills.com/code/chap%2033.htm

I'm sure these US municipalities are by no means unique in this
regard.

Dan
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