"Obscene" Literature and Constitutional Law: A Forensic Defense of Freedom of the PressPriv. print. for forensic uses, 1911 - 439 σελίδες |
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... mere psychological offense whose injury is constructive only , can never become anything except a constructive crime . Such purely constructive wrong and con- structive crime cannot be penalized in any country whose con- stitution was ...
... mere psychological offense whose injury is constructive only , can never become anything except a constructive crime . Such purely constructive wrong and con- structive crime cannot be penalized in any country whose con- stitution was ...
Σελίδα 29
... mere figures of speech will be mis- taken for analogies , question - begging epithets will take the place of fact and argument , and mere empty verbalisms , born of self - righteous emotions , will have the probative force of a ...
... mere figures of speech will be mis- taken for analogies , question - begging epithets will take the place of fact and argument , and mere empty verbalisms , born of self - righteous emotions , will have the probative force of a ...
Σελίδα 31
... mere unreasoned sympathetic imitation and emotional association , imposed by the mere thoughtless reiteration of customs , which often have their source and derive their special character from the vehemence of those who are afflicted ...
... mere unreasoned sympathetic imitation and emotional association , imposed by the mere thoughtless reiteration of customs , which often have their source and derive their special character from the vehemence of those who are afflicted ...
Σελίδα 38
... mere obscenity to make a pub- lication criminal at common law . These are the only decisions on obscenity prior to the sep- aration of the American colonies , and therefore the only ones which became a part of the common law of America ...
... mere obscenity to make a pub- lication criminal at common law . These are the only decisions on obscenity prior to the sep- aration of the American colonies , and therefore the only ones which became a part of the common law of America ...
Σελίδα 39
... mere " obscenity , " as such , was not a common law crime before the Revolution , and , therefore , never became a common law crime in America , al- though I believe some courts , on a superficial and uncritical view , have held ...
... mere " obscenity , " as such , was not a common law crime before the Revolution , and , therefore , never became a common law crime in America , al- though I believe some courts , on a superficial and uncritical view , have held ...
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Σελίδα 194 - The free communication of thoughts and opinions is one of the invaluable rights of man: and every citizen may freely speak, write, and print on any subject, being responsible for the abuse of that liberty.
Σελίδα 226 - The liberty of the press is, indeed, essential to the nature of a free state ; but this consists in laying no previous restraints upon publications ; and not in freedom from censure for criminal matter when published. Every freeman has an undoubted right to lay what sentiments he pleases before the public : to forbid this is to destroy the freedom of the press : but if he publishes what is improper, mischievous, or illegal, he must take the consequence of his own temerity.
Σελίδα 221 - Since, therefore, the knowledge and survey of vice is in this world so necessary to the constituting of human virtue, and the scanning of error to the confirmation of truth, how can we more safely, and with less danger, scout into the regions of sin and falsity, than by reading all manner of tractates, and hearing all manner of reason ? And this is the benefit which may be had of books promiscuously read.
Σελίδα 94 - has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other...
Σελίδα 210 - Congress shall make no law abridging freedom of speech or of the press, thus incorporating into the organic law of this country absolute freedom of thought or opinion.
Σελίδα 173 - Every citizen may freely speak, write, and publish his sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that right; and no law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press.
Σελίδα 385 - ... no subject shall be arrested, imprisoned, despoiled, or deprived of his property, immunities, or privileges, put out of the protection of the law, exiled, or deprived of his life, liberty, or estate, but by the judgment of his peers, or the law of the land.
Σελίδα 255 - I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself : but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean.
Σελίδα 334 - I think the test of obscenity is this, whether the tendency of the matter charged as obscenity is to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences, and into whose hands a publication of this sort may fall.
Σελίδα 386 - We must examine the Constitution itself to see whether this process be in conflict with any of its provisions. If not found to be so, we must look to those settled usages and modes of proceeding existing in the common and statute law of England before the emigration of our ancestors, and which are shown not to have been unsuited to their civil and political condition, by having been acted on by them after the settlement of this country.