The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent. Freedom of the Press: Rights and Liberties Under the Lawvon Nancy C. Cornwell - 2004 - 355 SeitenKeine Leseprobe verfügbar - Über dieses Buch
| Benjamin Nathan Cardozo - 1928 - 172 Seiten
...leads, however conscientiously, to action, such action 260 Liberty, Everyman's ed., p. 114. 261 ' ' The most stringent protection of free speech would...falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic. ' ' — Holmes, J., in Seheueck v. US, 1916, 249 US 47, 52. 262 Social Evolution and Political Theory,... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Education and Labor - 1939 - 852 Seiten
...absolute right of free speech. As Mr. Justice Holmes said in Schenck v. United States (249 US 47) : The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting "fire" in a crowded theater and causing a panic. It does not even protect a man from an injunction against uttering... | |
| United States. U.S. Congress. Senate. Committee on Education and Labor - 1940 - 1662 Seiten
...absolute right of free speech. As Mr. Justice Holmes said in Scherwk v. United States (249 US 47) : The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting "fire" in a crowded theater and causing a panic. It does not even protect a man from an injunction against uttering... | |
| United States - 1945 - 712 Seiten
...constitutional rights. But the character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done. * * * The most stringent protection of free speech would...protect a man In falsely shouting fire in a theatre and cauaing a panic. It does not even protect a man from an injunction against uttering words that may... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce - 1947 - 690 Seiten
...and the overthow by force of orderly government. The constitutional guaranty of free speech does not "protect a man from an injunction against uttering words that may have all the effect of force (Gompers v. B«cA-s Store rf Range Co., 221 US 439, 55 L. ed. 797, 805, 34 LRA (NS) 874,318. Ct. 492)."... | |
| John Howie - 2002 - 296 Seiten
...famous statement (not always attributed to him), Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes said, "the most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing panic."42 But in the opinion in which this statement occurs, Holmes provides an... | |
| Lee C. Bollinger, Geoffrey R. Stone - 2003 - 348 Seiten
...these leaflets. "But the character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done. The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater, and causing a panic."6 Holmes set forth the following test: speech can be suppressed when... | |
| Howard Zinn - 2003 - 372 Seiten
...was that of an intellectual and a liberal. Holmes said the First Amendment did not protect Schenck: The most stringent protection of free speech would...falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic. . . . The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of... | |
| World Book, Inc - 2003 - 164 Seiten
...welfare, safety, or morals of others. In 1919, US Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., wrote: 'The most stringent protection of free speech would...falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic." A person may be denied a civil right if that right is used to violate other people's rights. Freedom... | |
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