 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Post Roads - 1943 - Страниц: 108
...is 'essential to the nature of a free state.' It consists, he says, 'in laying no previous restraint upon publications, and not in freedom from censure for criminal matter when published. Every free man has an undoubted right to lay what sentiments he pleases before the public ; but if he publishes... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Post Roads - 1943 - Страниц: 102
...is 'essential to the nature of a free state.' It consists, he says, 'in laying no previous restraint upon publications, and not in freedom from censure for criminal matter when published. Every free man has an undoubted right to lay what sentiments he pleases before the public; but if he publishes... | |
 | Lucas A. Powe - 1992 - Страниц: 376
...similarly written: "The liberty of the press is indeed essential to the nature of a free state: but this consists in laying no previous restraints upon publications,...from censure for criminal matter when published." Even false information can be purveyed without prior governmental approval, but should a government... | |
 | Margaret A. Blanchard - 1992 - Страниц: 591
...Sir William Blackstone still influenced court decisions, and his 1765 view that freedom of the press "consists in laying no previous restraints upon publications,...not in freedom from censure for criminal matter when published"79 continued to dominate legal thinking. American legal commentators adapted Blackstone's... | |
 | California. Supreme Court - 1906 - Страниц: 826
...with unanimity by all commentators upon the law. Blackstone declares that the liberty of the press consists in laying no previous restraints upon publications, and not in freedom from censure for criminal matters when published. He says: "Every freeman has an undoubted right to lay wRat sentiments he pleases... | |
 | Geoffrey R. Stone, Richard A. Epstein, Cass R. Sunstein - 1992 - Страниц: 600
...the press is indeed essential to the nature of a free state: but this consists in laying no precious restraints upon publications, and not in freedom from censure for criminal matter when published.") (emphasis in original). '" See Lovell, 303 US at 452-53 ("As the ordinance is void on its face, it... | |
 | G. Edward White - 1995 - Страниц: 649
...purporting to summarize English common law. Blackstone had declared that "[t]he liberty of the press . . . consists in laying no previous restraints upon publications,...not in freedom from censure for criminal matter when published."252 In his first free speech opinion as a Supreme Court justice, Holmes adopted this view,... | |
 | Christopher Wolfe - 1994 - Страниц: 472
...certain kinds of speech: The liberty of press is indeed essential to the nature of a free state; but this consists in laying no previous restraints upon publications, and not in freedom for criminal matter when published. Every freeman has an undoubted right to lay what sentiments he... | |
 | John V. Orth - 1995 - Страниц: 220
...press approximates Sir William Blackstone's summary a century earlier: "The liberty of the press . . . consists in laying no previous restraints upon publications,...not in freedom from censure for criminal matter when published."7 As with freedom of assembly so with free speech, reasonable restrictions are permitted.... | |
 | Mary Lou Lustig - 1995 - Страниц: 266
...In the words of Blackstone, freedom of the press consisted solely in laying "no previous restraint upon publications, and not in freedom from censure for criminal matter when published." Those who wrote material considered seditious or libelous could be, and usually were, prosecuted. Libel... | |
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The liberty of the press is, indeed, essential to the nature of a free state ; but this consists in laying no previous restraints upon publications, and not in freedom from censure for criminal matter when published. 
