Newsgroups: alt.censorship,alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk
From: kadie@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie)
Subject: History of speech rights in public places
Message-ID: <1992Jan27.180759.22786@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1992 18:07:59 GMT

From _Freedom, Technology, and the First Amendment_ by Jonathan W.
Emord, p.88:

"In the 1798 case of _Davis v. Massachusetts_, the Supreme Court
refused to recognize a liberty to speak unobtrusively in a public
commons under the theory that 'absolutely or conditionally to forbid
public speaking in a highway or public place is no more an
infringement of the rights of a member of the public than for the
owner of a private house to forbid it in his house.' This remained the
law for forty years."

- Carl

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Carl Kadie -- kadie@cs.uiuc.edu -- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign