Word: free-speech
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Dates: during 1925-1925
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...forbidding anyone to incite persons to overthrow by violence the constituted Government. Under this law, one Benjamin Gitlow, radical Socialist, was convicted because, in 1919, he urged "mass industrial revolts" and "revolutionary mass action" in a published article. Gitlow fought the case to the Supreme Court on the free-speech issue...