War and Press Freedom: The Problem of Prerogative PowerOxford University Press, 1999 M02 25 - 336 páginas War and Press Freedom: The Problem of Prerogative Power is a groundbreaking and provocative study of one of the most perplexing civil liberties issues in American history: What authority does or should the government have to control press coverage and commentary in wartime? First Amendment scholar Jeffery A. Smith shows convincingly that no such extraordinary power exists under the Constitution, and that officials have had to rely on claiming the existence of an autocratic "higher law" of survival. Smith carefully surveys the development of statutory restrictions and military regulations for the news media from the ratification of the Bill of Rights in 1791 through the Gulf War of 1991. He concludes that the armed forces can justify refusal to divulge a narrow range of defense secrets, but that imposing other restrictions is unwise, unnecessary, and unconstitutional. In any event, as electronic communication becomes almost impossible to constrain, soldiers and journalists must learn how to respect each other's obligations in a democratic system. |
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... speech , and Jefferson's first inaugural address , which expressed delight at being " sep- arated by nature and a wide ocean from the exterminating havoc of one quarter of the globe , " were among the statements by leaders that ...
... speech , and Jefferson's first inaugural address , which expressed delight at being " sep- arated by nature and a wide ocean from the exterminating havoc of one quarter of the globe , " were among the statements by leaders that ...
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... speech , press , assembly , and petition during a war . A textual analysis , then , would suggest that in times of war the government is able to use its considerable defense powers to win on the battlefield , and the press is free to ...
... speech , press , assembly , and petition during a war . A textual analysis , then , would suggest that in times of war the government is able to use its considerable defense powers to win on the battlefield , and the press is free to ...
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... speech , or of the press , " then the words of the Consti- tution provide the so - called fourth branch of government with a complete exemption from having its liberty limited by any of the other three . In the Constitution , Congress ...
... speech , or of the press , " then the words of the Consti- tution provide the so - called fourth branch of government with a complete exemption from having its liberty limited by any of the other three . In the Constitution , Congress ...
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Página 57 - When a nation is at war many things that might be said in time of peace are such a hindrance to its effort that their utterance will not be endured so long as men fight, and that no court could regard them as protected by any constitutional right.
Página 121 - The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men at all times and under all circumstances.
Página 144 - It forces us to ask, Is there in all republics this inherent and fatal weakness? Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?
Página 57 - The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent.
Página 111 - At the same time, the candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the Government upon vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their Government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.
Página 46 - The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities and officials and to establish them as legal principles to be applied by the courts.
Página 89 - If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
Página 18 - The history of human conduct does not warrant that exalted opinion of human virtue which would make it wise in a nation to commit interests of so delicate and momentous a kind, as those which concern its intercourse with the rest of the world, to the sole disposal of a magistrate created and circumstanced as would be a President of the United States.
Página 44 - ... there are particular moments in public affairs, when the people stimulated by some irregular passion, or some illicit advantage, or misled by the artful misrepresentations of interested men, may call for measures which they themselves will afterwards be the most ready to lament and condemn.
Página 79 - Against us are the EXECUTIVE, the judiciary, two out of three branches of the legislature, all the officers of the government, all who want to be officers, all timid men who prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty...