 | Martin Edelman - 1984 - 416 էջ
...understanding of why the founding fathers wrote freedom of the press into the First Amendment:"The press was to serve the governed, not the governors....to censor the press was abolished so that the press could remain forever free to censure the Government. The press was protected so that it could bare... | |
 | Martin H. Seiden - 1991 - 258 էջ
...everything is classified, then nothing is classified." Justice Hugo Black expressed the opinion that the press was to serve the governed not the governors....would remain forever free to censure the government. . . . Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government... | |
 | Francesca Klug, Keir Starmer, Stuart Weir - 1996 - 406 էջ
...Supreme Court refused to grant an injunction. According to Justice Black: In the First Amendment . . . the Government's power to censor the press was abolished...... so that the press would remain forever free to censor the government. The press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of government and... | |
 | Pippa Norris - 1997 - 348 էջ
...reconcile with what Justice Hugo Black stated as its intended purpose in the Pentagon Papers case: In the First Amendment the Founding Fathers gave the...abolished so that the press would remain forever free to censor the Government. The press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of government and... | |
 | Jonathan Mermin - 1999 - 175 էջ
...Black declares that in the First Amend1 Quoted in Bellinger, Images of Free Press, p. 177, n. 44. ment "The Government's power to censor the press was abolished...the press would remain forever free to censure the Government,"2 there is no indication that "the Government" the Justices speak of is just the White... | |
 | Nancy Chang - 2002 - 172 էջ
...Daniel Ellsberg. As Justices Hugo Black and William Douglas explained in their concurring opinion: In the First Amendment the Founding Fathers gave the...essential role in our democracy.... The press was protected [from government censorship] so that it could bare the secrets of government and inform the... | |
 | Mark J. Rozell - 2003 - 358 էջ
...Justice William O. Douglas) for his absolutist position, argued that the Founding Fathers intended that "[t]he press was to serve the governed, not the governors....the press would remain forever free to censure the Government."55 Although a majority of the Supreme Court voted to allow the New York Times and Washington... | |
 | Howard Friel, Richard A. Falk - 2004 - 332 էջ
...opinion (quoted earlier, but it bears repeating), his last as a Supreme Court justice, Black wrote: In the First Amendment the Founding Fathers gave the...press was protected so that it could bare the secrets ot government and inform the people. Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception... | |
 | Stephan A. Jansen, Birger P. Priddat - 2005 - 228 էջ
...„checking value" hat das oberste Gericht der USA den Medien wiederholt zugesprochen:44 The Goverment's power to censor the press was abolished so that the...was protected so that it could bare the secrets of govemment and inform the people. Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception... | |
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In the First Amendment the Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to fulfill its essential role in our democracy. The press was to serve the governed, not the governors. The Government's power to censor the press was abolished... 
