"Obscene" Literature and Constitutional Law: A Forensic Defense of Freedom of the PressPriv. print. for forensic uses, 1911 - 439 σελίδες |
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... protected in their proper opportunity to hear and read all that others have to offer , and without which freedom unrestricted there is no intellectual liberty at all as a matter of right . " \ 3. The " obscenity ” laws violate the ...
... protected in their proper opportunity to hear and read all that others have to offer , and without which freedom unrestricted there is no intellectual liberty at all as a matter of right . " \ 3. The " obscenity ” laws violate the ...
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... protecting the home , the women , the family and the children , until the avalanche of righteous vituperation creates such a mist of emo tional disapproval that the juror forgets or loses what little capacity he may have had for looking ...
... protecting the home , the women , the family and the children , until the avalanche of righteous vituperation creates such a mist of emo tional disapproval that the juror forgets or loses what little capacity he may have had for looking ...
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... protection of a royal patent , how must they thrive under the wide spreading fostering wings of an act of Parliament . ” ' 12 If still more proof is desired we have it in the literature of pre - revolutionary times . When , in 1888 ...
... protection of a royal patent , how must they thrive under the wide spreading fostering wings of an act of Parliament . ” ' 12 If still more proof is desired we have it in the literature of pre - revolutionary times . When , in 1888 ...
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... protect their owners , and these owners , not caring to indulge in the expense of defending human liberty , succumbed to the threat . Emboldened by similar successes , the Art Students League catalogue was attacked because of its ...
... protect their owners , and these owners , not caring to indulge in the expense of defending human liberty , succumbed to the threat . Emboldened by similar successes , the Art Students League catalogue was attacked because of its ...
Σελίδα 67
... protected against the misleading effects of these titles upon their own psycho - sexual abnormity . Accordingly , the authorities threatened to stop the vendor's mail by a fraud order if he did not cease selling these booklets . Of ...
... protected against the misleading effects of these titles upon their own psycho - sexual abnormity . Accordingly , the authorities threatened to stop the vendor's mail by a fraud order if he did not cease selling these booklets . Of ...
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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.