Hearings on Legislation to Outlaw Certain Un-american and Subversive Activities: Hearings...H.R. 6903 and 7595. March 19501950 - 254 Seiten |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
action Activities Control Board amendment American Legion American Veterans Committee Attorney believe bill of attainder Chairman citizens Civil Rights Congress clear and present COMMITTEE ON UN-AMERICAN communism Communist organization Communist Party Communist political organization Communist-front organization Congress constitutional crime criminal democracy democratic employees enactment espionage establishment existing fact Father PARKER Federal FEPC final order foreign government freedom of speech front organizations groups HARRISON hearing individual KEARNEY labor legislation MCSWEENEY membership ment Moulder Mundt-Nixon bill munist NIKOLORIC Nixon bill officer opinion opposed organiza overthrow penalties person political party present danger Progressive Party prosecution protect provisions punishment purpose question reason registration statement representative section 14 sedition Senate Smith Act statement or annual statute subversive Subversive Activities Control Supreme Court TAVENNER testimony tion totalitarian dictatorship UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES unconstitutional Union United unlawful VELDE violation WALTER world Communist movement
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 2324 - ... the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market, and that truth is the only ground upon which their wishes safely can be carried out.
Seite 2316 - The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to SCHNEIDER V.
Seite 2217 - Accordingly a function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute. It may indeed best serve its high purpose when it induces a condition of unrest, creates dissatisfaction with conditions as they are, or even stirs people to anger.
Seite 2324 - While that experiment is part of our system I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country.
Seite 2324 - If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union, or to change its republican form, let them stand, undisturbed, as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it.
Seite 2119 - ... and any failure to obey such order of the court may be punished by such court as a contempt thereof. All process in any such case may be served in the judicial district whereof such person is an inhabitant or wherever he may be found.
Seite 2234 - What finally emerges from the "clear and present danger" cases is a working principle that the substantive evil must be extremely serious and the degree of imminence extremely high before utterances can be punished.
Seite 2316 - The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic.
Seite 2311 - States, pursuing its stated objectives, the recent successes of Communist methods in other countries, and the nature and control of the world Communist movement itself, present a clear and present danger to the security of the United States...
Seite 2288 - But freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order...