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| 09998. SUPPRESSION OF POLITICAL SPEECH: GITLOW V. NEW YORK, 268 U.S. 652 (1925). In this 1925 landmark Supreme Court case, the US Supreme Court considered a communist labor organizer’s (Gitlow) First and Fourteenth Amendment rights to free speech (in particular, free political speech). In this case, the Court advanced an important rule about free speech in America: the government can suppress political speech only if it can show that the speech creates a “clear and present danger.” TAGS: free speech, First Amendment rights, labor movement, unions, state’s rights, Fourteenth Amendment rights, labor unrest, political speech, landmark Supreme Court case. APA Style. 7 pages, 23 footnotes, 8 bibliographic sources. 1,645 words. |
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