 | Jesse Lee Bennett - American literature - 1925 - 332 pages
...the law that an immediate check is required to save the country. I wholly disagree with the arguments of the Government that the First Amendment left the...shown its repentance for the Sedition act of 1798, by repaying fines that it imposed. Only the emergency that makes it immediately dangerous to leave... | |
 | Law - 1919
..."threaten immediate interférence with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law. Justice Holmes denied that the First Amendment left the common law as to seditious libel in force. On this point Justice Holmes said: History seems to me against the notion. I had conceived that the... | |
 | Crime - 1921
...government that the First Amendment left the common law as to seditious libel in force. History seems to be against the notion. I had conceived that the United...years had shown its repentance for the Sedition Act of July 14, 1798 (1 Stat. at L. 596, chap. 74), by repaying fines that is imposed. Only the emergency... | |
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I wholly disagree with the argument of the Government that the First Amendment left the common law as to seditious libel in force. History seems to me against the notion. I had conceived that the United States through many years had shown its repentance... 
