 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1920 - 1156 pages
...States, and concerning a prosecution under that statute the Supreme Court of the United States said: "The question in every case is whether the words used are...bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent." Schenck v. United States, 249 US 47, 39 Sup. Ct. 247, 63 L. Ed. 470. Applying that... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1922 - 956 pages
...10212a-10212h) for preventing recruiting by named illegal acts, the Supreme Court, by Justice Holmes, said: "The question in every case is whether the words used are...bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent." Schenck v. US, 249 US 47, (H6 A.) Publications Inciting or encouraging revolution... | |
 | Law - 1951 - 604 pages
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 | Scott Nearing - Freedom of speech - 1919 - 108 pages
...rights. But the character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done. . . . The question in every case is whether the words used are...bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent." / That is the Debs decision. That is the method in which the Supreme Court handled... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Courts - 1919 - 762 pages
...words that may have all the effect of force. Gompers v. Bucks Stove & Range Co., 221 US 418, 439. (The question in every case is whether the words used are...bring /about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to 1 prevent. It is a question of proximity and degree. When a nation is at war many things that... | |
 | Appellate courts - 1920 - 740 pages
...where they conie from, to be loyal to this country," etc. Testing the record by the rule that "the question in every case is whether the words used are...bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent" (Schenck v. United States [March 3, 1919] 249 US 47, 39 Sup. Ct. 247, 63 L. Ed. 470)... | |
 | American Bar Association - Bar associations - 1920 - 852 pages
...Justice Holmes said: " The character of every act depends on the circumstances in which it was done The question in every case is whether the words used,...bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent." " Had this rule been thus affirmatively laid down earlier, it seems not unlikely... | |
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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. 
