| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce - 1956 - 430 pages
...in my State. Our United States Supreme Court declared in 315 US 568 : There are certain well-defined and narrowly limited classes of speech, the prevention...of the peace. It has been well observed that such are no essential part of any exposition of ideas, and are of such slight social value as a step to... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service - 1957 - 834 pages
...Supreme Court in Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire, 315 US 568 (1942), said : "There are certain well-defined and narrowly limited classes of speech, the prevention...of the peace. It has been well observed that such utterances are no essential part of any exposition of ideas, and are of such slight social value as... | |
| William A. Donohue - Political Science - 2001 - 396 pages
...1942, the high court laid down a standard that is still valid today: There are certain well-defined and narrowly limited classes of speech, the prevention...have never been thought to raise any constitutional problems. These include the lewd and obscene, the profane, the libelous, and the insulting or 'fighting'... | |
| Robert M. O'Neil - Law - 2001 - 208 pages
...prevailed against local sanctions on free, speech grounds โ the Court cited "certain well,defined and narrowly limited classes of speech, the prevention...have never been thought to raise any Constitutional problems." Along with "the lewd and obscene, the profane. . . .and the insulting or 'fighting' words"... | |
| Steven L. Winter - Law - 2003 - 446 pages
...lewd and obscene, the profane, the libelous, and the insulting or "fighting" words โ those words which by their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace.51 In his influential treatise, Tribe criticized the Court for relying on the "persistent" but... | |
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