You may find it interesting that this is the case in reference to which
Holmes coined the oft-repeated phrase about not being allowed to shout
fire in a crowded theatre.
radman wrote:
> Debs had been found guilty of violating the Espionage and Sedition Act,
> by openly opposing American intervention in World War I, by speaking to
> a rally in Canton, Ohio. Debs argued that he did so to prove that an
> unconstitutional law unjustly curtailed the exercise of free speech.
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