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CONTENTS

I. FREEDOM OF SPEECH IN WAR TIME .

II. OPPOSITION TO THE WAR WITH GERMANY.

I. The Espionage Acts of 1917 and 1918

II. Masses Publishing Co. v. Patten

III. The District Court Cases

IV. The Human Machinery of the Espio-

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42

46

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nage Acts

VI. Censorship and Exile

VIII. Reflections During a Technical State

of War

III. A CONTEMPORARY STATE TRIAL-THE UNITED

STATES V. JACOB ABRAMS et al.

I. The District Court

II. The Supreme Court

IV. LEGISLATION AGAINST SEDITION AND ANARCHY

I. The Normal Law Against Violence

II. The Normal Criminal Law of Words .

III. The Difference Between the Normal

Law and the New Legislation .

IV. Radical Meetings and the Red Flag

V. Criminal Anarchy and Criminal Syn-

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VII. The Constitutionality of a Federal Sedi-

tion Law

VIII. The Wisdom and Expediency of a

Federal Sedition Law

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207

V. A Review of the Actual Cases of Radi-

cals Held for Deportation

256

II. The Raids of 1763 and the Raids of

1919

296

III. The Exclusion of Wilkes from the

House of Commons

811

IV. The Exclusion of Victor L. Berger from

the House of Representatives.

V. The Five Socialist Members of the New

York Assembly.

VII. FREEDOM AND INITIATIVE IN THE SCHOOLS

315

332

365

A. General and Historical; B. The War;

C. Radical Activities in the United States

and Peace-time Restrictions upon Freedom of

Speech; D. Power of a Legislature to Exclude

or Expel for Opinions; E. Schools.

II. Index of Reported Cases under the Espionage Acts

of 1917 and 1918 .

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387

III. Text and Construction of the Espionage Act of 1918 895

IV. Normal Law of Four Jurisdictions Against Actual

or Threatened Violence .

398

V. State War and Peace Statutes Affecting Freedom

of Speech .

399

Index of Cases

407

General Index.

411