Word: terminiello
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...legislatures. After first backing & filling on questions involving Jehovah's Witnesses, the court finally upheld the right of that sect to propagandize religious bigotry even on a man's front stoop; on a technicality of the law, a majority upheld the right of rabble-rousing Father Arthur Terminiello to incite a Chicago...
Dissenting in the Terminiello case. Frankfurter sarcastically chided the majority: "This is a court of review, not a tribunal unbounded by rules. We do not sit like a kadi under a tree dispensing justice according to considerations of individual expediency...
...found guilty and fined $100-a conviction which was upheld by two Illinois courts. He took his case to the U.S. Supreme Court, which last week handed down its decision. By a majority of one, in an opinion written by liberal Justice William Douglas, it reversed Demagogue Terminiello's conviction...
...Whether Terminiello's performance was likely to have caused a riot and resulted in people getting hurt, the justices of the majority did not try to decide. Their decision was praised by Roger N. Baldwin, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, who argued that otherwise any meeting could be broken up "where opponents alleged that it was likely to rouse them to violent protest...
...angry dissent, the man who was chief U.S. counsel at the Nürnberg trials brought into focus the dilemma of democracy: how to keep its freedoms without delivering itself to its enemies. To Jackson it was clear that Chicago had a clear right to curb a Terminiello, and that the judge's definition was a practical recipe for a concrete situation...