Declaring Certain Papers, Pamphlets, Books, Pictures, and Writings Nonmailable: Hearings, Seventy-eighth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 2328 and H.J. Res. 49. November 15, 16, 1943, Part 1

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Pàgina 94 - When clear and present danger of riot, disorder, interference with traffic upon the public streets, or other immediate threat to public safety, peace, or order, appears, the power of the state to prevent or punish is obvious.
Pàgina 93 - Some of her answers might excite popular prejudice, but if there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought — not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.
Pàgina 71 - The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater, and causing a panic.
Pàgina 18 - In excluding various articles from the mail, the object of Congress has not been to interfere with the freedom of the press, or with any other rights of the people ; but to refuse its facilities for the distribution of matter deemed injurious to the public morals.
Pàgina 14 - A malicious publication, by writing, printing, picture, effigy, sign or otherwise than by mere speech, which exposes any living person, or the memory of any person deceased, to hatred, contempt, ridicule or obloquy, or which causes, or tends to cause any person to be shunned or avoided, or which has a tendency to injure any person, corporation or association of persons, in his or their business or occupation, is a libel.
Pàgina 94 - In the realm of religious faith, and in that of political belief, sharp differences arise. In both fields the tenets of one man may seem the rankest error to his neighbor.
Pàgina 1 - Whoever shall knowingly deposit, or cause to be deposited for mailing or delivery, anything declared by this section to be nonmailable...
Pàgina 4 - ... shall not be conveyed in the mails or delivered from any post office or by any letter carrier.
Pàgina 7 - I do further promise and declare that I will, when opportunity presents, make and wage relentless war, secretly and openly, against all heretics, Protestants and Masons, as I am directed to do. to extirpate them from the face of the whole earth; and that I will spare neither age, sex...
Pàgina 1 - ... written or printed or otherwise impressed or apparent, are hereby declared nonmailable matter, and shall not be conveyed in the mails...

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