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Freedom of Speech: Rights and Liberties Under the Law
by Kenneth Ira Kersch - 2003 - 395 pages
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Committee Prints

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service - 1957 - 834 pages
...1st and 14th amendments. It had little difficulty in holding that they are not. The Court stated : All ideas having even the slightest redeeming social...obscenity as utterly without redeeming social importance. Difficulties of enforcement locality may not be deemed so in another, under the test laid down by the...
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United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at ..., Volume 354

United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - 1957 - 670 pages
...honourable and just modes of conducting affairs." 1 Journals of the Continental Congress 108 (1774). All ideas having even the slightest redeeming social...they encroach upon the limited area of more important interests.14 But implicit in the history of the First Amendment is the rejection of obscenity as utterly...
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United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at ..., Volume 354

United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - 1957 - 668 pages
...honourable and just modes of conducting affairs." 1 Journals of the Continental Congress 108 (1774). All ideas having even the slightest redeeming social...they encroach upon the limited area of more important interests.14 But implicit in the history of the First Amendment is the rejection of obscenity as utterly...
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United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at ..., Volume 354

United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - 1957 - 668 pages
...guaranties, unless excludable because they encroach upon the limited area of more important interests.14 But implicit in the history of the First Amendment...obscenity as utterly without redeeming social importance. This rejection for Rev. Stat. of 1835, c. 130, §10, Rev. Stat. of Mass. 740 (1836): Commonwealth v....
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Mailing of Obscene Matter: Hearings Before Subcommittee No. 1, Committee on ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee No. 1 - 1958 - 138 pages
...constitutiinallty of statutes to repress obscene and salacious books and plays, Justice Brennan added : "But implicit in the history of the first amendment is the rejection of obsceity as utterly without social importance." If all the cases henceforth would be as clear-cut as...
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Obscene Matter Sent Through the Mail

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service - 1959 - 76 pages
...the 1st and 14th amendments. It had little difficulty in holding that they are not. The Court stated: All ideas having even the slightest redeeming social...obscenity as utterly without redeeming social importance. Difficulties of enforcement sality may not be deemed so in another, under the test laid down rthe Supreme...
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Obscene Matter Sent Through the Mail: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service - 1959 - 62 pages
...against obscene publications." Roth v. Vnited States, 354, US 476; 1 L. Ed. 2d 1498; 77 S. Ct. 1304: "But implicit in the history of the first amendment...obscenity as utterly without redeeming social importance. * * » We hold that obscenity is not within the area of constitutltionally protected speech or press."...
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Broadcast Advertisements. Hearings ... 88-1 ... November 6, 7, 8, 1963

United States. Congress. House. Interstate and Foreign Commerce - 1963 - 398 pages
...233 (1936) ; lireard v. Alexandria, 341 US 622, 642 (1951) ; Biirstyn v. Wilson, 343 US 495 (1951). "All ideas having even the slightest redeeming social...opinion — have the full protection of the guaranties * * *" (Roth v. US, 354 US 476, 484 (1957)). Nor can the Commission take refuge in the fact that these...
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The New Politics of Pornography

Donald Alexander Downs - 1989 - 306 pages
...prevailing climate of opinion — have the full protection of the guarantees [of the First Amendment], unless excludable because they encroach upon the limited...rejection of obscenity as utterly without redeeming social importance.53 The Court also relied on the logic of Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire's two-level approach...
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Liberty and Legislation

Richard Hoggart - 1989 - 252 pages
...US (1957), the definition of free speech was extended to "unorthodox ideas, controversial ideas ... But implicit in the history of the First Amendment...obscenity as utterly without redeeming social importance." Yet the word "obscenity" was qualified: "Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is...
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