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... Proposed Investigation of the Motion-picture Industry - Page 57by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1922 - 64 pagesFull view - About this book
| Christopher Wolfe - Law - 1994 - 472 pages
...free state; but this consists in laying no previous restraints upon publications, and not in freedom for criminal matter when published. Every freeman...illegal, he must take the consequences of his own temerity.2 In 1798 the furor over the Alien and Sedition Laws gave rise to an "absolutist" reading... | |
| Dan Lacy - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1996 - 222 pages
...eighteenth century: "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,...he must take the consequences of his own temerity" (quoted in Freedom of the Press from Zenger to Jefferson, ed. Levy, 104, emphasis in the original).... | |
| Leonard W. Levy - Law - 462 pages
...infringed or violated. 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,...he must take the consequences of his own temerity. . . . But to punish (as the law does at present) any dangerous or offensive writings, which, when published,... | |
| James W. Ely - Right of property - 1997 - 464 pages
...upon publications, and in freedom from censure from criminal matter when published. Every free man has an undoubted right to lay what sentiments he pleases...illegal, he must take the consequences of his own temerity.i55 Holmes interpreted the First Amendment on the basis of the common law definition of free... | |
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