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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... "
Freedom of Expression
by James Magee - 2002 - 328 pages
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The Journal of International Relations, Volume 12

International law - 1922 - 634 pages
...case of the US vs Abrams, concerning which Supreme Court Justice Holmes made the following comment: In this case sentences of twenty years imprisonment...Constitution of the United States now vainly invoked by them. In at least an indirect way the book furnishes by implication a powerful argument against war, in that...
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Law Series, Issues 17-24

Law - 1919 - 566 pages
...italics are mine.) But even more to be regretted is the following statement of the learned Justice: "In this case sentences of twenty years' imprisonment...has to publish the Constitution of the United States * *." (The italics are mine.) The deliberately planned vagaries of the defendants are by the learned...
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Freedom of Speech

Zechariah Chafee - Freedom of speech - 1920 - 458 pages
...TLR 46 (1918, CA). CHAPTER III A CONTEMPORARY STATE TRIAL—THE UNITED STATES VS. JACOB ABRAMS ET AL. In this case sentences of twenty years imprisonment...Constitution of the United States now vainly invoked by them.—JUSTICE HOLMES. SHOETLY before eight o'clock, on the morning of August 23, 1918, 1 several...
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Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer on Charges Made Against ..., Volumes 1-2

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rules - 1920 - 718 pages
...in which be says: "In this case sentences of 20 years' imprisonment have been imposed lor publi hing two leaflets that I believe the defendants had as much right to publish as the Government had to publish the Constitution of the United States, now vainly invoked by them," and in which he...
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Triumphant Plutocracy: The Story of American Public Life from 1870 to 1920

Richard Franklin Pettigrew - United States - 1921 - 938 pages
...such as these, besides abridging freedom of speech, threaten freedom of thought and of belief. ... In this case, sentences of twenty years' imprisonment...of the United States now vainly invoked by them." Such an infamous and inhuman decision requires no further comment from me. Similar cases are so numerous...
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The Journal of International Relations, Volume 12

International law - 1922 - 642 pages
...case of the US vs Abrams, concerning which Supreme Court Justice Holmes made the following comment: In this case sentences of twenty years imprisonment...Constitution of the United States now vainly invoked by them. In at least an indirect way the book furnishes by implication a powerful argument against war, in that...
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Imperial Washington, by R. F. Pettigrew...: The Story of American Public ...

Richard Franklin Pettigrew - United States - 1922 - 460 pages
...such as these, besides abridging freedom of speech, threaten freedom of thought and of belief. ... In this case, sentences of twenty years' imprisonment...of the United States now vainly invoked by them." Such an infamous and inhuman decision requires no further comment from me. Similar cases are so numerous...
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Railway Carmen's Journal, Volume 27, Issues 1-4

Railroads - 1922 - 710 pages
...prejudices and passions. Justice Holmes did not mince words when he said in his dissenting opinion : "In this case sentences of twenty years' imprisonment...for the publishing of two leaflets that I believe tbe defendants had as much right to publish as the government has to publish the Constitution of the...
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The Government--strikebreaker: A Study of the Role of the Government in the ...

Jay Lovestone - Labor - 1923 - 372 pages
...the dissenting opinion of the United States Supreme Court in the Abrams case, Judge Holmes declared: "In this case sentences of twenty years' imprisonment...had as much right to publish, as the Government has, the Constitution of the United States now vainly invoked by them. I regret that I cannot put into more...
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Speech and Scrap Book for Speakers

Speeches, addresses, etc - 1924 - 322 pages
...prejudices and passions. Justice Holmes did not mince words when he said in his dissenting opinion : "In this case sentences of twenty years' imprisonment...the publishing of two leaflets that I believe the defendant had as much right to publish as the Government has to publish the Constitution of the United...
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