Word: unlawful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...question is whether the principle of free speech applies to the law passed by the General Court of Massachusetts in 1921. Milton admits that there are certain things essentially evil which "no law can permit if it intends not to unlaw itself". Our Act says that the Commissioner of Public Safety "shall approve such films or parts thereof as are not obscene, indecent, immoral, inhuman, or such as tend to debase or corrupt morals or incite to crime." Can any law permit the things herein prohibited without unlawing itself? In an appeal from an Ohio case it was contended that...
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