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- Title
THE DOCTRINE OF PRIOR RESTRAINT.
- Authors
EMERSON, THOMAS I.
- Abstract
The article focuses on the concept of prior restraint on publications dealing with obscenity in the U.S. As stated, the concept deals with official restrictions imposed upon speech or other forms of expression in advance of actual publication. The system of prior restraint prevents communication from occurring at all, which is different from system of subsequent punishment, which allows the communication but imposes a penalty after the event. The doctrine of prior restraint states that the First Amendment forbids the Federal Government to impose any system of prior restraint in any area of expression which is within the boundaries of that Amendment.
- Subjects
UNITED States; PRIOR restraint; CENSORSHIP; OBSCENITY (Law); FREEDOM of speech; OBSCENE publications; PUNISHMENT; LAW
- Publication
Law & Contemporary Problems, 1955, Vol 20, Issue 4, p648
- ISSN
0023-9186
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/1190292