 | United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Assassinations - 1979 - 1510 pages
...it is the essence of self-government) ; Thornhill v. Alabama, 310 US 88, 101-102 (1940) ("Freedomof discussion, if it would fulfill its historic function...society to cope with the exigencies of their period" . ) "/Kleindeinst v. Mandel, 408 US 753, 762-765 (1972); Stanley v. Georgia, 394 US 557 JT969) ; Laroont... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Oversight - 1984 - 1072 pages
...truthfully all matters of public concern without previous restraint or fear of subsequent punishment. ... Freedom of discussion, if it would fulfill its historic...society to cope with the exigencies of their period." 435 US at 776, 55 L.Ed. 2d at 717. The interaction of S 4943, S 4945 and S 501(c)(3) effectively strips... | |
 | Martin Edelman - 1984 - 416 pages
...expression.13* To fulfull their function in this democracy, the constitutional guarantees of speech and press "must embrace all issues about which information is...society to cope with the exigencies of their period." 1 3 6 Nor could any meaningful distinction be made between fiction and nonfiction. An exception for... | |
 | Daniel J. Leab - 1985 - 500 pages
...If freedom of discussion were to fulfill "its historic function" in the United States, he wrote, it "must embrace all issues about which information is...society to cope with the exigencies of their period." Labor disputes, in the year 1940, had to be included among the issues about which information was required.... | |
 | Richard E. Labunski - 1987 - 262 pages
...of life in the Nation."112 Freedom of speech and press are not limited to political expression but embrace "all issues about which information is needed...society to cope with the exigencies of their period," Brennan quoted the concurring opinion of Chief Justice Warren in Curtis Publishing Company, which stated... | |
 | Bruce Russell - 1990 - 266 pages
...and then to the way in which a statute prohibiting picketing thus interfered with open communication: Freedom of discussion, if it would fulfill its historic...which information is needed or appropriate to enable members of society to cope with the exigencies of their period. In the circumstances of our times the... | |
 | Peter Michelson - 1993 - 330 pages
...mankind through the ages; it is one of the vital problems of human interest and public concern. . . . Freedom of discussion, if it would fulfill its historic...society to cope with the exigencies of their period. To expect ambiguity to stand up under the pressures of "a great and mysterious motive force" and "historic... | |
 | Alfred E. Kellermann, Kurt Siehr, Talia Einhorn - 1998 - 412 pages
...concern,' it concluded that 'information about her comings and goings . . . and other minutiae' do not 'enable the members of society to cope with the exigencies of their period.' Rather, the court reasoned that such information 'merely satisfies curiosity,' and that when the right... | |
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Freedom of discussion, if it would fulfill its historic function in this nation, must embrace all issues about which information is needed or appropriate to enable the members of society to cope with the exigencies of their period. 
