 | Ruth Fredman Cernea - 2006 - 268 էջ
...alliances, and prolong the war in Vietnam. dee Black explained, "In the First Amendment, the Framers gave the free press the protection it must have to...press was to serve the governed, not the governors." Think how far the Court had come from 1917, when the defendants in Abrams received twenty-year sentences... | |
 | Kermit L. Hall, Kevin T. McGuire - 2005 - 630 էջ
..."secrecy in government" as "fundamentally undemocratic." Justice Black's concurring opinion declared, "[i]n the First Amendment the Founding Fathers gave...have to fulfill its essential role in our democracy." Justice Brennan suggested "there is a single, extremely narrow class of cases in which the First Amendment's... | |
 | Ron Suskind - 2006 - 404 էջ
...it succinctly in the Pentagon Papers case, thirty-six years ago. "The government's power to censure the press was abolished so that the press would remain forever free to censure the government," he wrote. "The press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of government and inform the people."... | |
 | Des Freedman - 2008 - 273 էջ
...the Vietnam War. In words that have a particularly contemporary resonance, Justice Black argued that: In the First Amendment the Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to fulfil its essential role in our democracy. The press was to serve the governed, not the governors.... | |
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...and serve..." It does not identify whom THEY will protect or whom THEY will serve. 134 "The [federal] government's power to censor the press was abolished...the press would remain forever free to censure the [federal] government. The press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of the [federal] government... | |
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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... 
