 In the First Amendment the Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to fulfill its essential role in our democracy. The press was to serve the governed, not the governors. The Government's power to censor the press was abolished...  The Costs of War: America's Pyrrhic Victories - Página 34editado por - 1997 - 450 páginasVista previa limitada - Acerca de este libro
 | United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Congressional Operations - 1976 - 1336 páginas
...press plays a crucial and unique role in exposing government misconduct. As Mr. Justice Black has said, "Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government." 19r 196 "Or of the Press," Address of Potter Stewart, supra p. 93. York Times Co. v. United States,... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Intelligence - 1977 - 530 páginas
...as providing absolute freedom of the press, which he viewed as a necessary protection for the press "so that it could bare the secrets of government and inform the people."165 In Justice Black's view, national security could never justify prior restraint: The word... | |
 | 1980 - 532 páginas
...form of governing was at the heart of Mr. Justice Black's reminder in the Pentagon Papers case that "[t]he press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of government and inform the people." 403 US, at 717 (concurring opinion). Similarly, Senator Sam Ervin has observed: "When the people do... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce - 1979 - 1332 páginas
...Amendment gives the free press the protection it must have to fulfill its essential role in pur democracy. Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government." A free society requires a free press. The public has a stake in being assured that the press is protected... | |
 | Colin Bingham - 1982 - 376 páginas
...to fill its essential role in our democracy. The press was to serve the governed, not the governors. The government's power to censor the press was abolished...press can effectively expose deception in government.' Mr Justice Black once said that he did not know the origin of his beliefs. 'I just formed them as I... | |
 | Martin Edelman - 1984 - 416 páginas
...freedom of the press into the First Amendment:"The press was to serve the governed, not the governors. The Government's power to censor the press was abolished so that the press could remain forever free to censure the Government. The press was protected so that it could bare... | |
 | 1985 - 304 páginas
...fulfill its essential role in our democracy. The press was to serve the governed, not the governors. The government's power to censor the press was abolished...the secrets of government and inform the people." Justice Black was writing about the publication of the Pentagon Papers. The government of the United... | |
 | Lucas A. Powe - 1992 - 376 páginas
...plays an essential role in a democracy: "The press was to serve the governed, not the governors. [It] was protected so that it could bare the secrets of...unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government."66 Those words, from the last opinion of Justice Black's distinguished career, did more... | |
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