Free Speech

Paragraph: 5 - The Alabama Corrupt Practices Act by providing criminal penalties for publishing editorials such as the one here silences the press at a time when it can be most effective. It is difficult to conceive of a more obvious and flagrant abridgment of the constitutionally guaranteed freedom of the press.

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Preferred Terms:

• (is) discussing governmental affairs
• (is) newspaper editorials
• (is) press

Phrase match: guaranteed freedom of the press

Source: http://freespeech.iath.virginia.edu/exist-speech/cocoon/freespeech/FOS_newSTerms_One?doc=/db/fos_all/federal/SC/1960s/19660523.384.US.214.xml&keyword1=freedom of&wordsBefore=1&wordsAfter=3#m1

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Paragraph: 5 - Suppression of the right of the press to praise or criticize governmental agents and to clamor and contend for or against change, which is all that this editorial did, muzzles one of the very agencies the Framers of our Constitution thoughtfully and deliberately selected to improve our society and keep it free. The Alabama Corrupt Practices Act by providing criminal penalties for publishing editorials such as the one here silences the press at a time when it can be most effective. It is difficult to conceive of a more obvious and flagrant abridgment of the constitutionally guaranteed freedom of the press.

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Preferred Terms:

• (is) praise or criticize government

Phrase match: the right of the press to

Source: http://freespeech.iath.virginia.edu/exist-speech/cocoon/freespeech/FOS_newSTerms_One?doc=/db/fos_all/federal/SC/1960s/19660523.384.US.214.xml&keyword1=right of&wordsBefore=1&wordsAfter=3#m1

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