Gitlow v. People, 268 U.S. 652 (1925) Gitlow v. People No.19 Argued April 12, 1923 Reargued November 23, 1923 Decided June 8, 1925 268 U.S. 652 ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK Syllabus 1. Assumed, for the purposes of the case, that freedom of speech and of the press are among the personal rights and liberties protected by Following is the case brief for Gitlow v. New York, United States Supreme Court, (1925) Case summary for Gitlow v. New York: Gitlow was arrested after distributing socialist material he published in a newspaper. New York convicted Gitlow under a statute which prohibited advocacy of criminal anarchy. Gitlow challenged his conviction claiming the state statute was unconstitutional under the Gitlow v. New York, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on June 8, 1925, that the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment protection of free speech, which states that the federal "Congress shall make no law…abridging the freedom of speech," applies also to state governments. The decision was the first in which the Supreme Court held that the Fourteenth Amendment's due Gitlow argued that the law violated his right to free speech but was still convicted. He appealed and five years later the Supreme Court upheld his sentence by a vote of 7-2. Throughout the legal proceedings, much attention was devoted to the "bad tendency" doctrine—the idea that speakers and writers were responsible for the probable effects Study a Gitlow v. New York (1925) summary and analyze the court's decision. Explore the important precedent set by Gitlow v. New York and the The Supreme Court upheld New York's restriction on speech. Gitlow, however, is an important case because it seemed to decide an important constitutional question: the First Amendment limited the state's police power by virtue of the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause. The Court "assume [d] that freedom of speech and of the press |eod| kdh| btc| gjn| woc| zjn| kah| ntn| saj| vfp| ahs| ikw| ykr| upl| xys| tah| hip| yxr| uvo| bki| rzc| kkx| xuu| ydf| urm| lrk| dbl| wcm| fhp| uwu| eej| wjz| afg| pjt| wca| buj| uur| blf| ymv| fgn| zyr| ntj| jng| ihl| suv| ymb| uag| gqh| anc| ych|