Note 220 — Chapter III · A CONTEMPORARY STATE TRIAL—THE UNITED STATES VS. JACOB ABRAMS ET AL.
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Ibid. 622. Bagehot points out the danger of such a test: “The effect of all legislative interference in controversies has ever been to make an approximation to candor compulsory on one side but to encourage on the other side violence, calumny, and bigotry.”—Works, Longmans’ ed., X, 127.