Show restrictions on newspapers in publishing what Is public news ry by J A argument before supreme court the question is this Is there any power vested in congress congre to place restrictions on newspapers in ill publishing what is public news I 1 say there is is none otherwise the revolution was a failure and the adoption of the constitution ution was a solemn farco farce they still have a law in england forbidding the publishing of the proceedings 0 of af parliament but that law is as dead as the blue laws of connecticut ns as dead as julius caesar the censorship of tile arc press s q was expelled from this country with the expulsion of george III with him went all liis his prerogatives we contend that the freedom of the citizen is inseparable from freedom of conscience of speech of the press and the right of peaceable these are in fact but variations of one great natural right inherent in man mail and inseparable froni from liberty lie ile who cannot think is but a boast beast lie who thinks and is ia forbidden to lo speak is but a slave if he be permitted to speak I 1 then lie he must speak to somebody hence the right of assemblage C and discussion the ri right 0 lit to write all and to t pr print tit is but an extension of the right 11 of speech for it is only one other means of communicating ideas by words it is impossible to form forin any concept conc ept of liberty that does not ern embrace brace these great natural rights rig lits |