RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

REPORTING AND THESIS WRITING

PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SOURCES

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Speech that presents a “clear and present danger” to the security of the United States is in violation of the First Amendment free speech principle.
A
Marbury v. Madison
B
McCulloch v. Maryland
C
Gibbons v. Ogden
D
Dred Scott v. Sandford
E
Schenck v. United States
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The clear and present danger test features two independent conditions: first, the speech must impose a threat that a substantive evil might follow, and second, the threat is a real, imminent threat. The court had to identify and quantify both the nature of the threatened evil and the imminence of the perceived danger.

Detailed explanation-2: -United States, that speech is protected unless it presents a “clear and present danger” to our nation. The Court’s landmark opinion, written by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, introduced a test to determine the parameters of protected speech that, in one version or another, would govern until the late 1960s.

Detailed explanation-3: -United States, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on March 3, 1919, that the freedom of speech protection afforded in the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment could be restricted if the words spoken or printed represented to society a “clear and present danger.”

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