Restricted Speech Quotes
Maclay’s use of “contraband” stemmed from the Constitutional clause which read: No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States. Maclay used this clause to argue against John Adams and a few others who wanted titles for the United States executive officers.
This courageous woman wrote many articles exposing some of the excesses of the Russians in coping with the Chechen conflict and the Chechen terrorists. She was also very critical of the Putin administration. She had just published an article exposing torture used by the Russians in dealing with terrorists. She was gunned down outside her apartment in Moscow. Politkovskaya was actually born in America and was an American Citizen as well as a Russian Citizen.
Wikipedia: This was Debs's most famous speech. It was a socialist antiwar speech while the United States was at war, and it was used against him at his trial. Debs was convicted under the Espionage Law and sentenced to 10 years in prison. President Warren G. Harding commuted the sentence in 1921. The Espionage Act was so written that speaking against the war was defined as “Espionage”. This act and the Alien & Sedition Acts were the greatest infringements on Freedom of Speech in the History of the country and on both occasions, the Supreme Court chose not to get involved.
