Antiobscenity Legislation: Hearings, Ninety-first Congress ...Considers H.R. 5171 and 183 related bills, to prohibit the mailing of pornographic materials to minors, and to prohibit the unsolicited mail of pornographic materials. |
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... problem over to the States , in view of the number of complaints that have been received by the Congress , in view ... problem , the result that you have worked so hard to accomplish would be accomplished a lot more quickly . Mr. BENNETT ...
... problem over to the States , in view of the number of complaints that have been received by the Congress , in view ... problem , the result that you have worked so hard to accomplish would be accomplished a lot more quickly . Mr. BENNETT ...
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... problem , since experience teaches us that most people do not take the time to file formal complaints . But all of them do ask , “ Why can the Govern- ment not do something about this ? " It is my judgment that not only can we do this ...
... problem , since experience teaches us that most people do not take the time to file formal complaints . But all of them do ask , “ Why can the Govern- ment not do something about this ? " It is my judgment that not only can we do this ...
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... problem . Mr. KASTENMEIER . Do you believe that obscenity legislation has , as a proper objective , the prevention of sexual arousal in adults ? Mr. REHNQUIST . I am not sure that there is any causal connection that I know of between ...
... problem . Mr. KASTENMEIER . Do you believe that obscenity legislation has , as a proper objective , the prevention of sexual arousal in adults ? Mr. REHNQUIST . I am not sure that there is any causal connection that I know of between ...
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... problem and at the same time does give us a means to attack the serious problem that comes from delivery of this stuff to minors . I think that the thrust of the administration bill is to perhaps cause some of the transporters or ...
... problem and at the same time does give us a means to attack the serious problem that comes from delivery of this stuff to minors . I think that the thrust of the administration bill is to perhaps cause some of the transporters or ...
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... problem on which the wishes of the committee should certainly be observed . I do not understand Senator Goldwater's remarks to extend so far as to suggest that because the presumption might create drafting prob- lems we ought to back ...
... problem on which the wishes of the committee should certainly be observed . I do not understand Senator Goldwater's remarks to extend so far as to suggest that because the presumption might create drafting prob- lems we ought to back ...
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Page 301 - Obscene" means that to the average person, applying contemporary standards, the predominant appeal of the matter, taken as a whole, is to prurient interest, ie, a shameful or morbid interest in nudity, sex or excretion, which goes substantially beyond customary limits of candor in description or representation of such matters and is matter which is utterly without redeeming social importance.
Page 171 - Under this definition, as elaborated in subsequent cases, three elements must coalesce: it must be established that (a) the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to a prurient interest in sex; (b) the material is patently offensive because it affronts contemporary community standards relating to the description or representation of sexual matters; and (c) the material is utterly without redeeming social value.
Page 477 - American courts adopted this standard but later decisions have rejected it and substituted this test: whether to the average person, applying contemporary community standards, the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interest.
Page 407 - These include the lewd and obscene, the profane, the libelous, and the insulting or 'fighting' words— those which by their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace. It has been well observed that such utterances are no essential part of any exposition of ideas, and are of such slight social value as a step to truth that any benefit that may be derived from them is clearly outweighed by the social interest in order and morality.
Page 526 - Service, or takes or receives therefrom, any such matter or thing, or knowingly causes to be delivered by mail according to the direction thereon, or at the place at which it is directed to be delivered by the person to whom it is addressed, any such matter or thing, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.
Page 148 - There are certain well-defined and narrowly limited classes of speech, the prevention and punishment of which have never been thought to raise any Constitutional problem. These include the lewd and obscene, the profane, the libelous, and the insulting or 'fighting' words — those which by their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace.
Page 500 - Whoever violates any of the provisions of this subsection shall, upon conviction, be fined not more than $5,000, or imprisoned for not more than five years, or both. (d) The term "person" as used in this section means an individual partnership, corporation or association.
Page 254 - In none was there any suggestion of an assault upon individual privacy by publication in a manner so obtrusive as to make it impossible for an unwilling individual to avoid exposure to it.
Page 232 - If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a State has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his own house, what books he may read or what films he may watch.
Page 353 - The Third Amendment in its prohibition against the quartering of soldiers "in any house" in time of peace without the consent of the owner is another facet of that privacy. The Fourth Amendment explicitly affirms the "right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures.