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Trial of the Case of the Commonwealth Versus David Lee Child, for Publishing in the Massachusetts Journal a Libel on the Honorable John Keyes; Before the Supreme Judicial Court, Holden at Cambridge, in the County of Middlesex

Trial of the Case of the Commonwealth Versus David Lee Child, for Publishing in the Massachusetts Journal a Libel on the Honorable John Keyes; Before the Supreme Judicial Court, Holden at Cambridge, in the County of Middlesex


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1829 Excerpt: ... one of the rules which regards this remedy in the law of libel. In the opening of the defence, it may be proper for me, as was done by the Solicitor, on the part of the Government, to state the legal principles which, according to the view of the defendant's Counsel, should govern in prosecutions of this nature. There is no topic of the law, perhaps, more abundantly discussed in and out of Court, than the Law of Libel, as connected with the liberty of the press; and none perhaps of which the true principles are less generally understood. I do not propose, gentlemen, to utter a common place eulogium upon the liberty of the press, so often pronounced the Palladium of our civil liberties.. The people of this free republican country have, at all times, been sufficiently sensible of its value. Our State Constitution declares it to be among our inalienable rights; and by the terms of our federal compact, it is not in the power of Congress to abridge it. It is a blessing which exists, as it does here, in no other country upon earth. There is no other country, if not in this, in which the freedom of the press can be truly said to be protected and regulated by any fixed and settled principles of law. In all other countries it is restrained, not so much by certain salutary and well known rules, as by the policy of governments; while it is cherished and fostered, as far as those governments permit, not so much by the protection of the law, as by the power of public opinion. I mean to apply these remarks, so far at least as regards political libels, even to that land whence we ourselves derived the origin of our principles of civil liberty and of law. The other nations of Europe, generally speaking, have not yet dreamed of the liberty of the press; for nothing can be p...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781151382825
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 50
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1151382825
  • Publisher Date: 08 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 109 gr


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