Gitlow V. New York Every Idea an Incitement

Name: Gitlow V. New York Every Idea an Incitement
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ISBN: 9780700618767

ISBN-10: 0700618767

ISBN-13: 9780700618767

Edition: 2012

Authors: Mark Lendler

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In 1919 American Communist Party member Benjamin Gitlow was arrested for distributing a "Left Wing Manifesto," a publication inspired by the Russian Revolution. He was charged with violating New York's Criminal Anarchy Law of 1902, which outlawed the advocacy of any doctrine advocating to the violent overthrow of government. Gitlow argued that the law violated his right to free speech but was still convicted. He appealed and five years later the Supreme Court upheld his sentence by a vote of 7-2. Throughout the legal proceedings, much attention was devoted to the "bad tendency" doctrine-the idea that speakers and writers were responsible for the probable effects of their words-which the…

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List price: $21.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Publication date: 9/4/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 190
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



Editors' Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Famous Long Ago



"These Mad and Cruel Men"



Conviction by Inference



"Is This the Way to Fight Us?"



Gitlow in Jail, Gitlow in Court



The Time to Kill a Snake



Playing with the Devil's Rattle


Epilogue


Chronology


Bibliographical Essay


Index