 | Philip Beaver - 1805 - 556 էջ
...Elementary ART. XIX. It is hereby declared, that the people have a right to assemthC k'ema peaceable manner, to consult for the common good, to instruct their representatives, and to apply to the legislature for redress of grievances, by address, petition, or remonstrance. CHAP. III.... | |
 | New York (State). Legislature - 1887 - 102 էջ
...or indictments for libels, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury; and if it shall appear to the jury, that the matter charged as libelous is true, and was published with good motives, and for justifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted; and the jury shall have the right... | |
 | 1830 - 446 էջ
...1776. The declaration of rights in this instrument asserts, ' That the people have a right to assemble together, to consult for the common good, to instruct their representatives, and to apply to the legislature for a redress of grievances.1 Since that time, the same provision, a little... | |
 | Moses Severance - 1832 - 312 էջ
...indictments for libels, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury ; and if it shall appear to the jury, that the matter charged as libelous, is true, and was published with good motives, and for justifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted ; and the jury shall have the right... | |
 | Moses Severance - 1835 - 314 էջ
...indictments for libels, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury ; and if it shall appear to the jury, that the matter charged as libelous, is true, and was published vith good motives, and for justifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted ; and the jury shall have... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - 1838 - 804 էջ
...and twentieth section, he found these words : " The people shall have the right freely to assemble together, to consult for the common good, to instruct their representatives, and petition the Legislature for a redress of grievances." In this Constitution, therefore, which is the... | |
 | Francis Lieber - 1839 - 714 էջ
...Carolina, adopted in 1776. Article eighteenth of that bill says: "That the people have a right to assemble together, to consult for the common good, to instruct their representatives, and to apply to the legislature for redress of grievances." But what, according to the public law of that... | |
 | Ebenezer Meriam - 1847 - 224 էջ
...Mr. O'Conner, that in actions of libel the truth may be given in evidence ; and if it shall appear to the jury that the matter charged as libelous, is true, and was published with good motives and justifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted, the jury to be judges of the low and fact.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Hall - 1847 - 480 էջ
...indictments for libels, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury ; and if it shall appear to the jury, that the matter charged as libelous is true, and was published with good motives and for justifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted ; and the jury snail have the right... | |
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In all criminal prosecutions for libels, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury; and if it shall appear to the jury that the matter charged as libelous is true, and was published with good motives and for justifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted;... 
