Deportation of Aliens: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Immigration, United States Senate, Seventy-sixth Congress, Second and Third Sessions, on H.R. 4860, an Act to Amend Existing Law So as to Provide for the Exclusion and Deportation of Aliens who Advocate the Making of Any Changes in the American Form of Government. July 28, 1939; February 21 and April 25, 1940 ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1940 - 81 pages |
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Page 25 - The maintenance of the opportunity for free political discussion to the end that Government may be responsive to the will of the people and that changes may be obtained by lawful means, an opportunity essential to the security of the Republic, is a fundamental principle of our constitutional system.
Page 26 - But when men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe even more than they believe the very foundations of their own conduct that the ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas...
Page 25 - The greater the importance of safeguarding the community from incitements to the overthrow of our institutions by force and violence, the more imperative is the need to preserve inviolate the constitutional rights of free speech, free press and free assembly in order to maintain the opportunity for free political discussion, to the end that government may be responsive to the will of the people and that changes, if desired, may be obtained by peaceful means. Therein lies the security of the Republic,...
Page 42 - The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent. It is a question of proximity and degree.
Page 1 - An Act to exclude and expel from the United States aliens who are members of the anarchist and similar classes...
Page 31 - ... the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market, and that truth is the only ground upon which their wishes safely can be carried out. That at any rate is the theory of our Constitution. It is an experiment, as all life is an experiment. Every year if not every day we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge. While that experiment is part of our system I think that we should be eternally vigilant against...
Page 28 - Annual Report of the Secretary of Labor for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1937 (Washington: US Government Printing Office, 1937), p.
Page 30 - forbade the display of a red flag as a sign, symbol, or emblem of opposition to organized government...
Page 25 - It has been explicitly and repeatedly affirmed by this Court, without a dissenting voice, that freedom of speech and of assembly for any lawful purpose are rights of personal liberty secured to all persons, without regard to citizenship, by the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Page 47 - ... shall, upon the warrant of the Secretary of Labor, be taken into custody and deported in the manner provided in the immigration act of February fifth, nineteen hundred and seventeen.