...the same trend, the opinion stressed further: 'Thus we consider this case against the background of a profound national commitment to the principle that...on public issues should be uninhibited, robust, and v. ide-rpcn, and that it may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks...

...free speech and assembly should be guaranteed." Thus we consider this case against the background of a profound national commitment to the principle that...issues should be uninhibited, robust, and wide-open, and that it may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government...

...self-expression; it is the essence of selfgovernment. The First and Fourteenth Amendments embody our "profound national commitment to the principle that...issues should be uninhibited, robust, and wide-open, and that it may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government...

...purposes of this case. The motivating force for the decision in New York Times was twofold. We expressed "a profound national commitment to the principle that...issues should be uninhibited, robust, and wide-open, and that [such debate] may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks...

...legislators it cannot limit their capacity to express views on local or national policy. "[Djebate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust, and...wide-open." New York Times v. Sullivan, 376 US 254, 270. Pp. 135-136. 251 F. Supp. 333, reversed. Howard Moore, Jr., and Leonard B. Boudin argued the cause...

...opinion of Justice Brennan in the New York 'fimes v. Sullivan case, where he said, This Country has a profound national commitment to the principle that...on public issues should be uninhibited, robust and wide open and that it may well include relevant caustic and sometimes unpleasant sharp attack. Dean...

...opinion of Justice Brennan in the New York Times v. Sullivan case, where he said, This Country has a profound national commitment to the principle that...on public issues should be uninhibited, robust and wide open and that it may well include relevant caustic and sometimes unpleasant sharp attack. Dean...

...within that statutory term. For we must interpret the language Congress chose "against the background of a profound national commitment to the principle that...issues should be uninhibited, robust, and wide-open, and that it may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government...

...\. Louisiana, 379 US 64, 74-75 (1964). The primary purpose of the First Amendment is to protect our "profound national commitment to the principle that...issues should be uninhibited, robust, and wideopen « * * ." .Veto York Times Co. v. StiUiran. 370 US 254, 270 (1904). "Suppression of the right of the...

...Sullivan, similarly, the law of defamation was reshaped to require that adequate weight be given to "a profound national commitment to the principle that...issues should be uninhibited, robust, and wide-open . . . ."w More recently, Ginzburg v. United States20 extends essentially the same analysis to obscenity...