Note 314 — Chapter IV · Limitations on the Postal Power
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Ibid., 1149. As a matter of fact practically all of the state constitutions contained provisions guaranteeing the freedom of the press. There was, however, liability for abuse in Maine, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Mississippi, Alabama and Missouri. The other constitutions gave unrestricted freedom, subject, of course, to the common law exceptions. See Niles’ Register, vol. xlix, 236.