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| | FindLaw: U.S. Constitution: First Amendment: Annotations pg. 10 of 21 |
 | | Clear and Present Danger.--Certain expression, oral or written, may incite, urge, counsel, advocate, or importune the commission of criminal conduct; other expression, such as picketing, demonstrating, and engaging in certain forms of ''symbolic'' action may either counsel the commission of criminal conduct or itself constitute criminal conduct. |
 | | In this case the evidence proves beyond dispute that danger of rioting and violence in response to the speech was clear, present and immediate.'' 97 The Jackson position was soon adopted in Feiner v. |
 | | Contempt of Court and Clear and Present Danger.--The period during which clear and present danger was the standard by which to determine the constitutionality of governmental suppression of or punishment for expression was a brief one, extending roughly from Thornhill to Dennis. |
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