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Gitlow v. New York
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Gitlow v. New York

US Supreme Court decision of 1925 dealing with state legislation that restricts freedom of speech. Benjamin Gitlow, editor of the left-wing Manifesto, was convicted, under a New York state law, of advocating the violent overthrow of the government. The Court upheld the law, ruling that First Amendment rights are secondary to the preservation of the state.



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What happens to a private-property owner in Connecticut should be none of the federal government's business, and it wouldn't be if not for 1925's Gitlow case "incorporating" the Bill of Rights into the 14th Amendment's protection of due process.
Harrison White, as Gitlow, the last genuine Uncle Tom on the plantation, slyly channels Louis Armstrong.
Gitlow states that any physician who folds under to the patient who pleads "Doc, you've gotta give me something to get me through the holidays without drinking" is only con- tributing to that person's continued addiction.
 
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