Campaign Practices: Hearings, Ninety-third Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 12638 and H.R. 13539 ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1974 - 423 pagini |
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Pagina 194 - We cannot accept the view that an apparently limitless variety of conduct can be labeled "speech" whenever the person engaging in the conduct intends thereby to express an idea.
Pagina 202 - No right is more precious in a free country than that of having a voice in the election of those who make the laws under which, as good citizens, we must live. Other rights, even the most basic, are illusory if the right to vote is undermined.
Pagina 202 - Cause propos es will ensure the equality of votes cast in primary and general elections, an interest the Supreme Court has recognized not only in the reapportionment cases, see eg, 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.
Pagina 198 - But, although the rights of free speech and assembly are fundamental, they are not in their nature absolute. Their exercise is subject to restriction, if the particular restriction proposed is required in order to protect the State from destruction or from serious injury, political, economic or moral...
Pagina 200 - The power of Congress to protect the election of President and Vice President from corruption being clear, the choice of means to that end presents a question primarily addressed to the judgment of Congress. If it can be seen that the means adopted are really calculated to attain the end, the degree of their necessity, the extent to which they conduce to the end, the closeness of the relationship between the means adopted and the end to be attained, are matters for congressional determination alone.
Pagina 198 - For example, the ability of new technology to produce sounds more raucous than those of the human voice justifies restrictions on the sound level, and on the hours and places of use, of sound trucks so long as the restrictions are reasonable and applied without discrimination. Kovacs v. Cooper, 336 US 77 (1949). Just as the Government may limit the use of sound-amplifying equipment potentially so noisy that it drowns out civilized private speech, so may the Government limit the use of broadcast equipment.
Pagina 202 - Freedom to publish is guaranteed by the Constitution, but freedom to combine to keep others from publishing is not. Freedom of the press from governmental interference under the First Amendment does not sanction repression of that freedom by private interests.
Pagina 194 - The conduct which is the subject of this statute — picketing and parading — is subject to regulation even though intertwined with expression and association." 379 US at 563. The Court's explanation of its rationale in this case is applicable to the question of the permissibility of limiting campaign contributions and expenditures: "We are not concerned here with such a pure form of expression as newspaper comment or a telegram by a citizen to a public official. We deal in this case not with free...
Pagina 200 - It cannot be doubted that these comprehensive words [of Article I of the Constitution which grant Congress power to regulate the "times, places, and manner" of holding Congressional elections] embrace authority to provide a complete code for congressional elections, not only as to times and places, but in relation to notices, registration, supervision of voting, protection of voters, prevention of fraud and corrupt practices, counting of votes, duties of inspectors and canvassers, and making and...
Pagina 202 - That amendment rests on the assumption that the widest possible dissemination of information from diverse and antagonistic sources Is essential to the welfare of the public, that a free press is a condition of a free society.