Parties: Wilkinson v. United States
Date: 1961-02-27
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Paragraph: 55 - Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the First Amendment. It is part of the right free speech. It embraces freedom of the press. Can editors be summoned before the Committee and be made to account for their editorials denouncing the Committee, its tactics, its practices, its policies? If petitioner can be questioned concerning his opposition to the Committee, then I see no reason why editors are immune.
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Paragraph: 56 - The First Amendment rights involved here are more than freedom of speech and press. Bringing people together in peaceable assemblies is in the same category. De Jonge v. State of Oregon, 299 U.S. 353, 57 S.Ct. 255, 81 L.Ed. 278. 'The right of peaceable assembly is a right cognate to those of free speech and free press and is equally fundamental.' Id., 299 U.S. at page 364, 57 S.Ct. at page 260. The right to petition 'for a redress of grievances' is also part of the First Amendment; it too is fundamental to 'the very idea of a government, republican in form.'
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Paragraph: 56 - The First Amendment rights involved here are more than freedom of speech and press. Bringing people together in peaceable assemblies is in the same category. De Jonge v. State of Oregon, 299 U.S. 353, 57 S.Ct. 255, 81 L.Ed. 278. N49* 'The right of peaceable assembly is a right cognate to those of free speech and free press and is equally fundamental.'
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Paragraph: 38 - Since this is to be the rule under which the Committee will be permitted to operate, I think it necessary in the interest of fairness to those who may in the future wish to exercise their constitutional right to criticize the Committee that the true nature of those 'protections' be clearly set forth.
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Paragraph: 43 - Our Constitution, in unequivocal terms, gives the right to each of us to say what we think without fear of the power of the Government. That principle has served us so well for so long that I cannot believe it necessary to allow any governmental group to reject it in order to preserve its own existence. Least of all do I believe that such a privilege should be accorded the House Un-American Activities Committee.
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Paragraph: 56 - The First Amendment rights involved here are more than freedom of speech and press. Bringing people together in peaceable assemblies is in the same category. De Jonge v. State of Oregon, 299 U.S. 353, 57 S.Ct. 255, 81 L.Ed. 278. 'The right of peaceable assembly is a right cognate to those of free speech and free press and is equally fundamental.' Id., 299 U.S. at page 364, 57 S.Ct. at page 260. The right to petition 'for a redress of grievances' is also part of the First Amendment; it too is fundamental to 'the very idea of a government, republican in form.' United States v. Cruikshank, 92 U.S. 542, 552, 23 L.Ed. 588.
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Paragraph: 63 - A scant 19 months before the hearing in question petitioner was summoned before this very Committee and refused to answer questions on substantially the same grounds as those he claimed in this instance. Nor did his conduct in the interim afford any basis for a hope that he might have repented, an inference which, by contrast, was possible in Flaxer v. United States, 358 U.S. 147, 151, 79 S.Ct. 191, 193, 3 L.Ed.2d 183, cited by the Government. For petitioner continued to proclaim his hostility to the Committee and his belief that it had no power to probe areas of free expression. He was not even called to testify at these hearings in Atlanta until the Committee learned that he was to be present in Atlanta to express his opposition to the Committee's work, as, of course, he had a right to do. In fact, the Committee's Staff Director came perilously close to admitting, on cross-examination by petitioner's counsel, that petitioner was called to the stand only because of his opposition to the Committee's activities.
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Paragraph: 57 - N31* 'The greater the importance of safeguarding the community from incitements to the overthrow of our institutions by force and violence, the more imperative is the need to preserve inviolate the constitutional rights of free speech, free press and free assembly in order to maintain the opportunity for free political discussion, to the end that government may be responsive to the will of the people and that changes, if desired, may be obtained by peaceful means. Therein lies the security of the Republic, the very foundation of constitutional government.'
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