 | Byron Farwell - 1999 - Broj stranica: 360
...Oliver Wendell Holmes, in whose opinion the defendants "had as much right to publish [the pamphlets] as the government has to publish the Constitution of the United States now vainly invoked by them." 1917 the Supreme Court had never applied or interpreted the First Amendment. There were, therefore,... | |
 | Terry Eastland - 2000 - Broj stranica: 446
...the popular government — not to impede the United States in the war that it was carrying on. . . . In this case sentences of twenty years imprisonment...Constitution of the United States now vainly invoked by them. . . . Persecution for the expression of opinions seems to me perfectly logical. If you have no doubt... | |
 | John E. Semonche - 2000 - Broj stranica: 532
...the defendants were punished for their ideas and not for any crime, the justice now said that they "had as much right to publish as the government has...of the United States now vainly invoked by them." That Constitution, Holmes continued, is premised upon the "free trade in ideas — that the best test... | |
 | John W. Johnson - 2001 - Broj stranica: 536
...specifically evil effect. According to Holmes, "the defendants had as much right to publish [the leaflets] as the Government has to publish the Constitution of the United States." Holmes went on in the final paragraph of the dissent to elaborate and clarify his ideas on freedom... | |
 | Geoffrey R. Stone - 2004 - Broj stranica: 758
...the government arms or have any appreciable tendency to do so."288 In this case, Holmes maintained, "sentences of twenty years imprisonment have been...Constitution of the United States now vainly invoked by them."289 Holmes then offered one of the most eloquent statements ever made on the freedom of speech:... | |
 | Robert E. Denton - Broj stranica: 244
...not see how anyone can find the intent required by the statute in any of the defendants' words. ... In this case sentences of twenty years imprisonment...as the Government has to publish the Constitution. . . . |T)he best test of truth is the power ot the thought to get itself accepted in the competition... | |
 | Robert E. Denton - Broj stranica: 244
...not see how anyone can find the intent required by the statute in any of the defendants' words. ... In this case sentences of twenty years imprisonment...leaflets that I believe the defendants had as much righi lo publish as the Government has to publish the Constitution.... |T]he best test of truth is... | |
 | Geneva Overholser, Kathleen Hall Jamieson - 2005 - Broj stranica: 518
...codefendants received, but the argument became a more encompassing defense of the First Amendment: "In this case sentences of twenty years' imprisonment...of the United States now vainly invoked by them.'"' From the specifics of this particular case, with those sentenced described as "poor and puny anonymities,"... | |
 | Ruth Fredman Cernea - 2006 - Broj stranica: 268
...much the fact of conviction itself, but the severity of the punishment. As he explained, and I quote: In this case, sentences of twenty years imprisonment...have been imposed for the publishing of two leaflets. . . . Even if I am . . . wrong [in concluding that no crime has been committed, it seems to me that]... | |
 | M. V. Kamath - 2006 - Broj stranica: 272
...upset by it. In his dissenting opinion he said lines that remained etched in my memory: "...Sentencing of twenty years' imprisonment have been imposed for...squeezed from these poor and puny anonymities to turn the colour of legal litmus paper the most nominal punishment seems to me all that possibly could be inflicted,... | |
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In this case sentences of twenty years imprisonment have been imposed for the publishing of two leaflets that I believe the defendants had as much right to publish as the Government has to publish the Constitution of the United States now vainly invoked... 
