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Editorial Paragraphs
June 17, 1925 issue

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Whatever men decree about freedom of speech in laws and constitutions, they have substantially as much or as little of it at any time as the great majority of them want. There is no subject more difficult to regulate exactly by statute; none in regard to which statutes can be more easily twisted by administrators or courts to conform to the ruling ideas of the day. During the war popular ideas in regard to freedom of speech were revised downward and they have grown only slightly more liberal since. There is no surprise that a majority of the Supreme Court voted to support the New York law and dusted off some old words by Justice Story as an argument.

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FREEDOM of speech; CONSTITUTIONS; CIVIL rights; APPELLATE courts; LAW; NEW York (State); UNITED States
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