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" 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 by any constitutional right. "
No Greater Threat: America After September 11 and the Rise of a National ... - Page 37
by C. William Michaels - 2002 - 536 pages
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Laboratory of Justice: The Supreme Court's 200-Year Struggle to Integrate ...

David L. Faigman - 2004 - 440 pages
...writing, disagreed. Holmes admitted that in peacetime, the defendants' words would be protected. However, "[w]hen a nation is at war many things that might...utterance will not be endured so long as men fight." Holmes wrote that the "question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances...
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Civil Peace and the Quest for Truth: The First Amendment Freedoms in ...

Murray Dry - 2004 - 324 pages
...the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent. It is a question of proximity and degree. When a nation is at war many things that might be...their utterance will not be endured so long as men light and that no Court could regard them as protected by any constitutional right. The statute . ....
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Over Here: The First World War and American Society

David M. Kennedy - 2004 - 452 pages
...those cases, Schenck v. United States, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., articulated the theory that "when a nation is at war many things that might be...effort that their utterance will not be endured." 89. Chafee, Free Speech, 80. 90. Masses Publishing Co. v. Patten, 244 Fed. 535 (So. Dist., NY, 1917)....
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Language, Symbols, And the Media: Communication in the Aftermath of the ...

Robert E. Denton - 244 pages
...the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent. It is a question of proximity and degree. When a nation is at war many things that might be...its effort that their utterance will not be endured as long as men tight, and (hat no court could regard them as protected by any constitutional right....
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Language, Symbols, And the Media: Communication in the Aftermath of the ...

Robert E. Denton - 244 pages
...the substantive evils thai Congress has a right to prevent. 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 ils effort that their utterance will not be endured as long as men fight, and that no court could regard...
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Lincoln Steffens: A Biography

Justin Kaplan - 2004 - 420 pages
...cause. "When a nation is at war," said Mr. Justice Holmes, "many things that might be said in times of peace are such a hindrance to its effort that their utterance will not be endured so long as men will fight." As Walter Lippmann was to point out after the war, it was impossible to have propaganda...
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More Secure, Less Free?: Antiterrorism Policy & Civil Liberties After ...

Mark Sidel - 2004 - 246 pages
...circumstances are justified "[w]hen a nation is at war [because] many things that might be said in times of peace are such a hindrance to its effort that their utterance will not be endured."6 The Sedition Act of 1918 continued this treatment. Forced detentions were an issue once...
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Perspectives on 9/11

Yassin El-Ayouty - 2004 - 364 pages
...Schenck's conviction and, while enunciating the well-known "clear and present danger" test, stated that "when a nation is at war, many things that might be said in times of peace are such a hindrance to its effort that their utterance will not be endured so long...
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The Constitution in Wartime: Beyond Alarmism and Complacency

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...
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The Constitutionalist: Notes on the First Amendment

George Anastaplo - 2005 - 918 pages
...the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent. It is a question of proximity and degree. When a nation is at war many things that might be...will not be endured so long as men fight and that no 6'ourt could regard them as protected by any constitutional right. It seems to be admitted that if...
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