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" ... the right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon, which has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right. "
Documents of the Senate of the State of New York - Page 62
by New York (State). Legislature. Senate - 1833
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The Politics of Cyberspace: A New Political Science Reader

Chris Toulouse, Timothy W. Luke - Computers - 1998 - 196 pages
...us to a discussion of the third First Amendment model. c. Free Speech and Democratic Self-Governance [T]he right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon . . . has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other...
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The Sacred Fire of Liberty: James Madison and the Founding of the Federal ...

Lance Banning - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 566 pages
...provisions of the Constitution, a bald assumption of usurped authority, and a direct attack on "that right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon, which has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other...
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Freedom of Speech and Incitement Against Democracy

David Kretzmer, Francine Kerschman Hazan, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung - Political Science - 2000 - 304 pages
...by the Constitution, the republican form of government. The Act, Madison said, was 'levelled against the right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication thereon, which has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right.' In America, Madison...
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The Political Philosophy of James Madison

Garrett Ward Sheldon - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 324 pages
...public policy and a requisite to an informed electorate voting for candidates. "It is leveled against the right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people . . . which has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other...
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A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War

Harry V. Jaffa - Presidents - 2004 - 574 pages
...and judicial powers to those of the executive," and the Sedition Act "because it is leveled against the right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon, which has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other...
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Free Speech, The People's Darling Privilege: Struggles for Freedom of ...

Michael Kent Curtis - History - 2000 - 544 pages
...fundamental criticism: the Sedition Act should "produce universal alarm, because it is levelled against that right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon, which has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other...
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Republic.com

Cass R. Sunstein - Computers - 2001 - 252 pages
...Sedition Act ought, "more than any other, to produce universal alarm; because it is levelled against that right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon, which has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other...
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The Boundaries of Freedom of Expression & Order in American Democracy

Thomas R. Hensley - History - 2001 - 420 pages
...Sedition Act ought, "more than any other, to produce universal alarm; because it is leveled against that right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon, which has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other...
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Slavery & the Law

Paul Finkelman - History - 2002 - 488 pages
...fundamental criticism: the Sedition Act should "produce universal alarm, because it is levelled against that right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon, which has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other...
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Eternally Vigilant: Free Speech in the Modern Era

Lee C. Bollinger, Geoffrey R. Stone - Law - 2003 - 348 pages
...Sedition Act ought, "more than any other, to produce universal alarm; because it is levelled against that right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon, which has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other...
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