Federal Election Reform, 1973: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Priveleges [sic] and Elections and the Committee on Rules and Administration, United States Senate, Ninety-third Congress, First Session ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1973 - 406 pagini |
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Pagina 357 - This Court has held that when "speech" and "nonspeech" elements are combined in the same course of conduct, a sufficiently important governmental interest in regulating the nonspeech element can justify incidental limitations on First Amendment freedoms.
Pagina 386 - ... no danger flowing from speech can be deemed clear and present, unless the incidence of the evil apprehended is so imminent that it may befall before there is opportunity for full discussion. If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.
Pagina 41 - legally qualified candidate" means any person who has publicly announced that he is a candidate for nomination by a convention of a political party or for nomination or election in a primary, special, or general election, municipal, county, State or national, and who meets the qualifications prescribed by the applicable laws to hold the office for which he is a candidate, so that he may be voted for by the electorate directly or by means of delegates or electors, and who...
Pagina 114 - Commission issued under subsection (b) of this section, issue an order requiring compliance therewith ; and any failure to obey the order of the court may be punished by the court as a contempt thereof.
Pagina 363 - We need not suppose that when power resides in an exclusive class, that class will knowingly and deliberately sacrifice the other classes to themselves : it suffices that, in the absence of its natural defenders, the interest of the excluded is always in danger of being overlooked; and, when looked at, is seen with very different eyes from those of the persons whom it directly concerns.
Pagina 368 - Except as otherwise authorized by law, the conduct of litigation in which the United States, an agency, or officer thereof is a party, or is interested, and securing evidence therefor, is reserved to officers of the Department of Justice, under the direction of the Attorney General.
Pagina 389 - ... within a specific prohibition of the Constitution, such as those of the first ten amendments.
Pagina 383 - Liberty of circulating is as essential to that freedom as liberty of publishing; indeed, without the circulation, the publication would be of little value.
Pagina 367 - The fundamental necessity of maintaining each of the three general departments of government entirely free from the control or coercive influence, direct or indirect, of either of the other, has often been stressed and is hardly open to serious question. So much is Implied in the very fact of the separation of the powers of these departments by the Constitution ; and in the rule which recognizes their essential co-equality.
Pagina 364 - Baker v. Carr, 369 US 186 (1962), Reynolds v. Sims, 377 US 533 (1964), but in cases overturning State laws that imposed financial burdens (see Harper v.