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freedom of speechRight, as stated in the 1st and 14th Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, to express information, ideas, and opinions free of government restrictions based on content. A modern legal test of the legitimacy of proposed restrictions on freedom of speech was stated in the opinion by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. in Schenk v. U.S. (1919): a restriction is legitimate only if the speech in question poses a “clear and present danger”—i.e., a risk or threat to safety or to other public interests that is serious and imminent. Many cases involving freedom of speech and of the press also have concerned defamation, obscenity, and prior restraint (see Pentagon Papers). See also censorship. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The right to dissent from moral teachings in areas such as abortion, birth control, divorce and homosexuality is thus rejected in principle by the Vatican. In critiquing the Red Scare practices and the political repression that interpreted Lee's freedom of expression and right to dissent as disloyalty and Un-American behavior, she draws frightening parallels to contemporary US society in the aftermath of September 11, 2001. Clark succeeded in maintaining order at the UO while simultaneously respecting the right to dissent. |
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