 | Nathan Dane - Law - 1824 - 726 pages
...this account only is the libel publicly prosecuted. Hamilton, whose opinion was approved, said, " the liberty of the press consists in the right to publish,...good motives and for justifiable ends, whether it respect government, magistracy, or individuals." A piece written with good motives, and on a proper... | |
 | Jacob D. Wheeler - Criminal law - 1825 - 612 pages
...perfectly correct, the comprehensive and accurate definition of one of the counsel at . the bar,* that the liberty of the press consists in the right to publish, with impunity, truth, with good mo* General Hamilton. tives, and for justifiable ends, whether it respects go- NEW-YORK, vernment,... | |
 | Robert Walsh - American literature - 1829 - 532 pages
...great case ^ of The people vs. Croswell, S.Johns. Cases, 337. " The liberty of the press," said he, "consists in the right to publish with impunity truth,...respects government, magistracy, or individuals.'' Does not the law as it stands violate this liberty, according to the definition we have adopted ? Take... | |
 | Benjamin Lynde Oliver - Citizenship - 1832 - 428 pages
...comprehensive and accurate definition of one of the counsel at the bar, (General Hamilton,) that the liberty of the press consists in the right to publish...respects government, magistracy, or individuals.' See 3 Johns. Cases, 394. This doctrine is expressly incorporated into the statute law of several of... | |
 | Benjamin Lynde Oliver - Citizenship - 1832 - 408 pages
...(General Hamilton,) that the liberty of the press consists in the right to publish icith impunity, iruth with good motives, and for justifiable ends, whether...respects government, magistracy, or individuals.' See 3 Johns. Cases, 394. This doctrine is expressly incorporated into the statute law of several of... | |
 | James Hawkins Peck, Arthur Joseph Stansbury - Impeachments - 1833 - 614 pages
...and have never demanded more than that, in which its true freedom consists, the right of publishing with impunity truth, with good motives and for justifiable...it respects government, magistracy or individuals. The Court then adjourned till 12 o'clock to-morrow. HIGH COURT OF IMPEACHMENT. THE UNITED STATES t>».... | |
 | James Hawkins Peck, Arthur Joseph Stansbury - Impeachments - 1833 - 616 pages
...demanded more than that, in which its true freedom consists, the right of publishing with iœpunity truth, with good motives and for justifiable ends,...it respects government, magistracy or individuals. The Court then adjourned till 12 o'clock to-morrow. HIGH COURT OF IMPEACHMENT. THE UNITED STATES cj.... | |
 | Theology - 1840 - 316 pages
...liberty of the press, by Alexander Hamilton, which he states to consist in the right to pnblish^with impunity, " Truth, with good motives and for justifiable...it respects government, magistracy, or individuals. I conclude by saying that, according to my best judgment, after a full consideration of all the arguments... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1847 - 566 pages
...Chan. j cellor Kent, Chief Justice Parsons, Judge Quincy, and Dr. Cooper, be correct, viz : that the liberty of the press consists in the right to publish,...it respects government, magistracy or individuals, — then the abuse of the press would consist in the publishing either of truth or falsehood, with... | |
 | William Johnson, New York (State). Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1849 - 866 pages
...recapitulating the substance of the doctrine for which he contended, in the following words : "1. The liberty of the press consists in the right to publish, with impunity, truth, with good motives, for justifiable ends, though reflecting on government, magistracy, or individuals. " 2. That the allowance... | |
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Cas. 336, 394, adopted, as a definition of the phrase "liberty of the press," what was said by General Hamilton in his brief in that case, where it was set forth that "the liberty of the press consists in the right to publish, with impunity, truth, with... 
