...the matter is very simple when stripped of all ornaments of speech," says an eminent English judge. " It is neither more nor less than this ; that a man may publish anything which twelve of his fellow countrymen think is not blamable." It is plain, therefore, that in this case at least we do...

...that nothing can put that in danger but the licentiousness of the press. "The liberty of the press is neither more nor less than this, that a man may...anything which twelve of his countrymen think is not blameahle, but that he ought to be punished if he publishes that which is blameable. 8 American judges...

...the matter is very simple when stripped of all ornaments of speech," says an eminent English judge. "It is neither more nor less than this : that a man may publish anything which twelve of his fellow countrymen think is not blamable." It is plain, therefore, that in this case at least we do...

...opportunity. A little further on his Lordship defines liberty of the press thus : "It is neither more or less than this, that a man may publish anything which...to be punished if he publishes what is blamable." — Comment by Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, on Lord Kenyan's eulogy of the "liberty" of the press....

...seditious libel was used to prohibit criticisms of government. Freedom of expression in England was thus "neither more nor less than this: that a man may publish...which twelve of his countrymen think is not blamable." 13 Freedom of association was even more restricted under English law. Until relatively recently, associations...

...case to the discretion of a jury, and in the last year of the eighteenth century, it could be said that "a man may publish anything which twelve of his countrymen think is not blameable." History will not deny some share in the credit for this achievement to Alderman John Wilkes....