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|description_of_incident=The Espionage Act of 1917 forbade anyone from speaking ill of the United States' involvement with World War I. These pamphlets were encouraging blue collar workers to "spit in the face of the false, hypocritic, military propaganda." Each member of the radical group were sentenced to 20 years imprisonment because the pamphlets were "obviously intended to provoke and encourage resistance to the United States in a war." | |description_of_incident=The Espionage Act of 1917 forbade anyone from speaking ill of the United States' involvement with World War I. These pamphlets were encouraging blue collar workers to "spit in the face of the false, hypocritic, military propaganda." Each member of the radical group were sentenced to 20 years imprisonment because the pamphlets were "obviously intended to provoke and encourage resistance to the United States in a war." | ||
|description_of_result=Justice Holmes and Brandeis both supported the groups pleas that their pamphlets were protected by the First Amendment of the Constitution. | |description_of_result=Justice Holmes and Brandeis both supported the groups pleas that their pamphlets were protected by the First Amendment of the Constitution. | ||
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Green, Jonathon. The Encyclopedia of Censorship. New York, NY: Facts on File, 1990. Print. | |||