 | New York (State) - 1830 - 424 pages
...being responsible for the abuse of that right-; and no law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press. In all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury ; and if it shall appear to the jury, that the... | |
 | Moses Severance - Readers - 1832 - 312 pages
...being responsible for the abuse of that right ; and no law shall be passed to restrain, or abridge, the liberty of speech, or of the press. In all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury ; and if it shall appear to the jury, that the... | |
 | La Roy Sunderland - Antislavery movements - 1836 - 194 pages
...being responsible for the abuse of that right; and no law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech, or of the press. In all prosecutions, or indictments for libels, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury: and if it shall appear to the jury that the... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - Constitutions - 1836 - 146 pages
...being responsible for the abuse of that right ; and no laws shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press. In all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury ; and if it shall appear to the jury that the... | |
 | La Roy Sunderland - Antislavery movements - 1837 - 152 pages
...being responsible for the abuse of that right ; and no law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech, or of the press. In all prosecutions, or indictments for libels, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury : and if it shall appear to the jury, that the... | |
 | Julius Rubens Ames - Antislavery movements - 1837 - 716 pages
...being responsible for the abuse of that right ; and no law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech, or of the press. In all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury ; and if it shall appear to the jury, that the... | |
 | Julius Rubens Ames - Antislavery movements - 1837 - 244 pages
...being responsible for the abuse of that right ; and no law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech, or of the press. In all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury ; and if it shall appear to the jury, that the... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1837 - 812 pages
...being responsible for the abuse of that right, and no law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press. In all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury ; and if it shall appear to the jury that the... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy - 1838 - 354 pages
...being responsible for the abuse of that right ; and no law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press. In all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury ; and if it shall appear to the jury that the... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1839 - 382 pages
...which it has in view is to prevent the licentiousness of the press. What is the amendment? It is that in all prosecutions or indictments for libel, the truth may be given in evidence ; that the jury shall determine the fact whether the publication has been made with good motives and... | |
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No law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press. In all prosecutions or indictments for libel, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury; and if it shall appear to the jury that the matter charged as libelous is... 
