Every citizen may freely speak, write and publish his sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that right; and no law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press. In all... Commentaries on American Law - Sivu 19tekijä(t) James Kent - 1827Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
| John Chauncey Pease, John Milton Niles - 1819 - 496 sivua
...6. No law shall ever be passed to curtail or restrain the liberty of speech or of the press. § 7. In all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth may be given in evidence, and the jury shall have the right to determine the 'aw and the facts, under the direction of the court.... | |
| New York (State). Constitutional Convention, Nathaniel Hazeltine Carter, William Leete Stone - 1821 - 722 sivua
...right ; and uo law shall be passed, to restrain, or abridge, the liberty of speech, or of the press. In all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the...evidence, to the jury ; and if it shall appear to the jury, that the matter charged as libellous, is true, and was published with good motives, and for justifiable... | |
| New York (State). Constitutional Convention, Nathaniel Hazeltine Carter, William Leete Stone - 1821 - 718 sivua
...and no law shall ever be passed to curtail, or restrain the liberty of speech, or of the press ; and in all prosecutions, or indictments, for libels, the truth may be given in evidence, if it be to appear, thai the matter charged as libellous, was published with good ul tnr justifiable... | |
| New York (State) - 1823 - 516 sivua
...right; and no law shall be passed, to restrain, or abridge the liberly of speech, or of the press. In all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the...evidence, to the jury ; and if it shall appear to the jury, that the matter charged as libellous, is true, and was published with .good motives, and for... | |
| 1826 - 220 sivua
...that light; and no law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech, or of the press. In all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the...evidence to the jury; and if it shall appear to the jury, that the matter charged as libellous is true, and was published with good motives, and for justifiable... | |
| New York (State). Legislature - 1887 - 102 sivua
...no law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press. In all criminal prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth...evidence to the jury; and if it shall appear to the jury, that the matter charged as libelous is true, and was published with good motives, and for justifiable... | |
| Thomas Starkie - 1826 - 658 sivua
...Court, as in other cases — The Constitutions of Connecticut and Mississippi, provide that in .'.II prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth may be given in evidence, and the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the facts, under the direction of the Court.... | |
| Francis Smith Eastman - 1828 - 320 sivua
...that right ; and no law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech, or of the press. In all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the...evidence to the jury; and if it shall appear to the jury, that the matter charged as libellous is true, and was published with good motives, and for justifiable... | |
| Montgomery Robert Bartlett - 1828 - 426 sivua
...right; and no law shall be passed to restrain, or abridge, the liberty of speech, or of the press. In all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the...be given in evidence to the jury; and if it shall :ippear to the jury, that the matter charged as libellous, is true, and was published with good motives,... | |
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