 | George Anastaplo - 2005 - 918 pages
...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...could regard them as protected by any constitutional right.'4 We find here, in this 1919 opinion for the unanimous court in Schenck v. United States —... | |
 | Mark Tushnet - 2005 - 278 pages
...would, absent the emergency, be unjustified intrusions on civil liberties. As Justice Holmes put it, "When a nation is at war many things that might be...could regard them as protected by any constitutional right."5 Holmes might be read as expressing a resigned acceptance of the inevitable, but it is better... | |
 | Geneva Overholser, Kathleen Hall Jamieson - 2005 - 518 pages
...danger." According to majority opinion: "When a nation is at war many things that might be said in a time of peace are such a hindrance to its effort that...could regard them as protected by any constitutional right."1 In Near v. Minnesota in 1931, the court struck down a state law that authorized censorship... | |
 | Leon Newton - 2006 - 320 pages
...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...regard them as protected by any constitutional right." For decades this standard of "clear and present danger" was used to determine when the government could... | |
 | Joseph Margulies - 2007 - 354 pages
...that was said in the circular would have been within their constitutional rights. . . . [ But w] hen a nation is at war many things that might be said...regard them as protected by any constitutional right"). 10. Spatial disorientation is a well-recognized phenomenon. Among others, the US Air Force Research... | |
 | David A. Copeland - 2006 - 313 pages
...danger." According to majority opinion: "When a nation is at war many things that might be said in a time of peace are such a hindrance to its effort that...regard them as protected by any constitutional right." In Near v. Minnesota in 1931, the court struck down a state law that authorized censorship of scurrilous... | |
 | Peter Irons - 2006 - 328 pages
...nation is at war many things that might be said in time of peace are such a hindrance to its conduct that their utterance will not be endured so long as...regard them as protected by any constitutional right." But does the Constitution allow a distinction between peacetime and wartime speech? Holmes made no... | |
 | Scott J. Hammond, Kevin R. Hardwick, Howard Leslie Lubert - 2007 - 988 pages
...such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will prisonment, for you, or me, or you of us, to give...Canada. And every man or woman in whose veins coursed seems to be admitted that if an actual obstruction of the recruiting service were proved, liability... | |
 | Earl Shorris - 2007 - 396 pages
...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...regard them as protected by any constitutional right." War has often been an excuse for tossing the Constitution aside, but the definition of war has become... | |
 | Jeffrey D. Stocks - 2007 - 114 pages
...speech. The decision was unanimous and its opinion was written by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. "[w]hen a nation is at war many things that might...regard them as protected by any constitutional right" (Scbenck v. US [1919]). Holmes also set forth his famous "clear and present danger" threshold. He stated... | |
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It is a question of proximity and degree. When a nation is at war many things that might be said in time of peace are such a hindrance to its effort that their utterance will not be endured so long as men fight and that no Court could regard them as protected... 
