"Obscene" Literature and Constitutional Law: A Forensic Defense of Freedom of the PressPriv. print. for forensic uses, 1911 - 439 σελίδες |
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... determine what is safe to take for granted . If I am wrong in that which I will claim , the courts will correct me , when this argument reaches them , as it ultimately will . If I am right , I dare not take for granted that others know ...
... determine what is safe to take for granted . If I am wrong in that which I will claim , the courts will correct me , when this argument reaches them , as it ultimately will . If I am right , I dare not take for granted that others know ...
Σελίδα 12
... determine such qualities . A like implication cannot be made in favor of a power to determine what are mailable ideas , because a differential test of mail matter , based upon the opinions transmitted through the mails , or the ...
... determine such qualities . A like implication cannot be made in favor of a power to determine what are mailable ideas , because a differential test of mail matter , based upon the opinions transmitted through the mails , or the ...
Σελίδα 16
... determine guilt or crime according to varying personal standards , such as must control the opinion of a jury on the psychological tendency of a book upon an undescribed hypothetical reader , and which standard , because it is personal ...
... determine guilt or crime according to varying personal standards , such as must control the opinion of a jury on the psychological tendency of a book upon an undescribed hypothetical reader , and which standard , because it is personal ...
Σελίδα 19
... determine what shall be excluded . The difficulty attending the subject arises not from the want of regulations as to what shall constitute mail matter , but from the necessity of enforcing them consistently with rights reserved to the ...
... determine what shall be excluded . The difficulty attending the subject arises not from the want of regulations as to what shall constitute mail matter , but from the necessity of enforcing them consistently with rights reserved to the ...
Σελίδα 25
... determines whether the judge will be impelled to exercise his greatest ingenuity toward a discovery of reasons which will tend to uphold or to annul the statutes under investigation . Those who disbelieve in freedom of the press ...
... determines whether the judge will be impelled to exercise his greatest ingenuity toward a discovery of reasons which will tend to uphold or to annul the statutes under investigation . Those who disbelieve in freedom of the press ...
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Σελίδα 221 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.
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 94 - has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other...
Σελίδα 55 - 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 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 209 - Christianity is Parcel of the Laws of England; and therefore to reproach the Christian Religion is to speak in Subversion of the Law.
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 189 - 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 2 - I am in earnest. I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch. AND I WILL BE HEARD.