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Mr. Justice Holmes once said that as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived." Mark Howe, who had been Holmes' law clerk in 1933-34 and...
Unbalancing Holmes. In rejecting Miller's argument last fall, the Appellate Court pointed out that Congress is fully empowered to regulate the draft; the card-burning law, which amends the Selective Service Act, simply strengthened "an already existing regulatory scheme." If a law is thus constitutional on its face...
Miller's lawyers tried to dig deeper: they argued that the First Amendment protects card burning as "symbolic speech," and they urged the court to apply Justice Holmes's famous dictum that mere words cannot be punished unless they create "a clear and present danger that they will...
Balancing Dissent. The Appellate Court flatly refused to raise a protective umbrella over all "symbolic conduct"-noting that such a broad interpretation might include anything from a "thumbs-down gesture to political assassination." Most important, it rejected the Holmes test. Instead, it followed the Supreme Court's recent tendency...
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