Oversight of the 1946 Federal Regulation of Lobbying Act: Hearings Before the Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, Ninety-eighth Congress, First Session, November 15 and 16, 1983, Issue 45U.S. Government Printing Office, 1984 - 540 pages |
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Page 21 - By a faction I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community.
Page 21 - As long as the reason of man continues fallible and he is at liberty to exercise it different opinions will be formed. As long as the connection subsists between his reason and his selflove, his opinions and his passions will have a reciprocal influence on each other, and the former will be objects to which the latter will attach themselves.
Page 247 - ... by a fine of not more than $5,000 or imprisonment for not more than twelve months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
Page 247 - Clerk for a period of two years from the date of filing, shall constitute part of the public records of his office, and shall be open to public inspection. PERSONS TO WHOM APPLICABLE SEC.
Page 19 - Thus we consider this case against the background of a profound national commitment to the principle that debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust, and wide-open, and that it may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials.
Page 255 - It shall be unlawful for any person — "(1) to knowingly or willfully advocate, abet, advise, or teach the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying any government in the United States by force or violence...
Page 247 - It shall be the duty of the treasurer to obtain and keep a receipted bill, stating the particulars, for every expenditure by or on behalf of a political committee exceeding $10 in amount. The treasurer shall preserve all receipted bills and accounts required to be kept by this section for...
Page 434 - Anonymous pamphlets, leaflets, brochures and even books have played an important role in the progress of mankind. Persecuted groups and sects from time to time throughout history have been able to criticize oppressive practices and laws either anonymously or not at all.
Page 411 - There are again two methods of removing the causes of faction : the one, by destroying the liberty which is essential to its existence; the other, by giving to every citizen the same opinions, the same passions, and the same interests.
Page 249 - On the other hand, if the general class of offenses to which the statute is directed is plainly within its terms, the statute will not be struck down as vague even though marginal cases could be put where doubts might arise.