"Obscene" Literature and Constitutional Law: A Forensic Defense of Freedom of the Press

Voorkant
The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., 2002 - 439 pagina's

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Chap
198
XII
206
A State
240
Ethnographic Study of Modesty
258
Psychologic Study of Modesty
271
Uncertainty of the Moral Test
279
Varieties of Official Modesty
302
Varieties of Criteria of Guilt
326

Chap VII
107
scene Ideas from the Mails
129
Concerning the Meaning of Freedom
142
Chap
154
Chap
163
Chap
181
Aspect of Law
343
siderations Concerning Uncertainty
355
Interpretation of Law in Relation
365
quired by Modern Authorities
384
and the Application
402
Ex Post Facto Criteria of Guilt
416

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Pagina 221 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.
Pagina 194 - The free communication of thoughts and opinions is one of the invaluable rights of man: and every citizen may freely speak, write, and print on any subject, being responsible for the abuse of that liberty.
Pagina 226 - The liberty of the press is, indeed, essential to the nature of a free state ; but this consists in laying no previous restraints upon publications ; and not in freedom from censure for criminal matter when published. Every freeman has an undoubted right to lay what sentiments he pleases before the public : to forbid this is to destroy the freedom of the press : but if he publishes what is improper, mischievous, or illegal, he must take the consequence of his own temerity.
Pagina 94 - has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other...
Pagina 55 - I think the test of obscenity is this, whether the tendency of the matter charged as obscenity is to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences, and into whose hands a publication of this sort may fall.
Pagina 221 - Since therefore the knowledge and survey of vice is in this world so necessary to the constituting of human virtue, and the scanning of error to the confirmation of truth, how can we more safely and with less danger scout into the regions of sin and falsity than by reading all manner of tractates, and hearing all manner of reason ? And this is the benefit which may be had of books promiscuously read.
Pagina 173 - Every citizen may freely speak, write, and publish his sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that right; and no law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press.
Pagina 385 - ... no subject shall be arrested, imprisoned, despoiled or deprived of his property, immunities, or privileges, put out of the protection of the law, exiled, or deprived of his life, liberty or estate; but by the judgment of his peers, or the law of the land.
Pagina 226 - But to punish (as the law does at present) any dangerous or offensive writings, which, when published, shall on a fair and impartial trial be adjudged of a pernicious tendency, is necessary for the preservation of peace and good order, of government and religion, the only solid foundations of civil liberty.

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