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  Clear and present danger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the 1994 film, see Clear and Present Danger (film).
Clear and present danger is a term used in the case Schenck v.
"The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent.
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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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 FindLaw Constitutional Law Center: U.S. Constitution: First Amendment: Annotations pg. 10 of 21
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.
Georgia,108 the Court again divided, applying clear and present danger to upset the contempt conviction of a sheriff who had been cited for criticizing the recommendation of a county court that a grand jury look into African American bloc voting, vote buying, and other alleged election irregularities.
The role of clear and present danger was not to play a future role in the labor picketing cases.
supreme.lp.findlaw.com /constitution/amendment01/10.html   (5623 words)

  
 Clear And Present Danger
Clear And Present Danger is the third film in the Jack Ryan series, and possibly the weakest one to date, if only by a small margin, thanks to some rather weak chest-beating and posing.
Clear And Present Danger begins with a Coast Guard ship boarding a luxury power yacht that happens to be owned by a friend of the President and his family.
Clear And Present Danger is probably the least of the Jack Ryan series, thanks to some lousy dialogue at critical moments, but this is only a faint criticism as it still makes for an excellent evening's entertainment.
www.michaeldvd.com.au /Reviews/ClearAndPresentDanger.html   (1555 words)

  
 Review: Clear and Present Danger   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Clear and Present Danger is all plot and no characters.
Some of the technical elements of Clear and Present Danger are fascinating (principally because the movie actually gets a lot of this stuff right), and there are several well-executed action scenes (even if Harrison Ford is getting a little old to be getting involved in so many fist fights).
Clear and Present Danger is enjoyable, but it's a shallow enjoyment that doesn't leave me hungering for Paramount Pictures' next Clancy adaptation.
movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/c/clear_present.html   (698 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Clear and Present Danger: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Ultimately, Clear and Present Danger is about moral conscience, law and politics, with Jack Ryan and CIA agent John Clark as its dual heroes.
Clear and Present Danger takes us to the war against the Colombian drug cartels but at heart its a moral about the abuse of power, and corruption.
Clear and Present danger is a fantastic book in which Jack Ryan has to overpower a secret mission in Columbia.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0006177301   (1320 words)

  
 FindLaw for Legal Professionals - Case Law, Federal and State Resources, Forms, and Code
Its reasoning was as follows: The "clear and present danger" test was applied to the utterance itself in Schenck because the question was merely one of sufficiency of evidence under an admittedly constitutional statute.
It is thus clear that he reserved the question of the existence of the danger for his own determination, and the question becomes whether the issue is of such a nature that it should have been submitted to the jury.
The doctrine that there must be a clear and present danger of a substantive evil that Congress has a right to prevent is a judicial rule to be applied as a matter of law by the courts.
caselaw.lp.findlaw.com /cgi-bin/getcase.pl?navby=case&court=us&vol=341&invol=494   (15505 words)

  
 Evolution of the Clear and Present Danger Test
The Court was presented with the first of several cases involving “subversive speech” — where the speaker urges others to break the law or to overthrow or undermine the government.
Holmes and Brandeis believed the Court’s version of the clear and present danger test was really just a “bad tendency” test, in which any speech that tended to undermine the government could be restricted, regardless how insignificant or how remote the possible harm.
The Court offers a test to apply to government restrictions, which requires that some “clear and present danger” be anticipated by the government before restrictions of speech will be upheld.
academic.mu.edu /uglande/comm165/Subversive.htm   (1421 words)

  
 Filmtracks: Clear and Present Danger (James Horner)
Clear and Present Danger: (James Horner) After beginning the original trilogy of Jack Ryan films with an overwhelming cinematic and soundtrack success in the form of The Hunt for Red October, the series of adaptations of Tom Clancy's novels to the big screen progressed with less fanfare to Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger.
For Clear and Present Danger, the setting and circumstances are far different, and yet just as Ford runs around and looks worried in the same old way, Horner provides rehash after rehash of ideas in his final entry in the series.
If Horner is to be whipped in public for his adaptation and blatant re-use of his own material, Clear and Present Danger is one of the more obvious points of evidence to use against him.
www.filmtracks.com /titles/clear_present.html   (1034 words)

  
 Clear and Present Danger
And the line between safety and danger, purity and poison is a thin one.
She also determined that these effects were measurable at a lower level of exposure to fluoride than was necessary to produce damage to the bones.
From the outset, the danger of fluorosis was inherent in the dental lobby's advocacy of fluoride - it was recognised that some children would need to sacrifice their appearance for what was deemed to be the greater good.
www.sonic.net /kryptox/press/guardian.htm   (3744 words)

  
 Clear and present danger - SourceWatch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The phrase clear and present danger was popularized by Tom Clancy's 1993 thriller "Clear and Present Danger", which is "based on America's war on drugs...and the covert--and shocking--U.S. response."[8] (http://www.penguinputnam.com/static/packages/us/tomclancy/clearpresent.html)
The doctrine of 'clear and present danger' stems from the period after World War I which saw some 1,900 federal prosecutions for peaceful speech, mostly for statements considered subversive because they encouraged resistance to the draft or otherwise opposed the war effort.
Among the notable cases of that era was the prosecution and imprisonment of the leader of the American Socialist Party, Eugene V. Debs, which was upheld by the Supreme Court.
www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Clear_and_present_danger   (1079 words)

  
 Clear and Present Danger test lawyerdude   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Clear and Present Danger test was finally used to overrule an obstruction to speech.
Compare to Debs case circa 1914 where clear and present danger test was not fully ripe.
Regarding clear and present danger test: Mere possibility of danger is not enough.
www.lawyerdude.8k.com /5802.html   (2335 words)

  
 Clear and Present Danger: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Clear and Present Danger: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic
Clear and Present Danger is a novel by Tom Clancy Tom Clancy quick summary:
The title of the book is based on the legal phrase "clear and present danger clear and present danger quick summary:
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/cl/clear_and_present_danger.htm   (917 words)

  
 Clear and present danger
The danger is that in its pursuit of finishing off the BJP once and for all, the UPA government may well be losing sight of safeguarding the national interest.
These dangers range from intrusion into a citizen's privacy, commission of crime otherwise punishable by law, and a threat to national security.
It is clear that when the Sonia-led sarkar in New Delhi took its two decisions on the Phukan Commission, it either did not consult its internal security advisor or bypassed his known reservations on the subject.
in.rediff.com /news/2004/nov/22arvind.htm   (1171 words)

  
 America Responds to Terrorism -- Constitutional Rights Foundation
But Justice Holmes was careful to say that the government could only do this when there was a "clear and present danger" such as during wartime.
DEBATE RESOLUTION: Eugene V. Debs' speech at the anti-war rally was a "clear and present danger" to the laws of the United States.
DEBATE RESOLUTION: Benjamin Gitlow's "Left Wing Manifesto" was a "clear and present danger" to the laws of the United States.
www.crf-usa.org /terror/clear_present.htm   (1619 words)

  
 sfbg.com
Clear Channel Communications owns seven San Francisco radio stations, a massive concert business, and many of the city's billboards.
The news-rack contract establishes a 20-year relationship between the city and Clear Channel, which has in recent years become a media behemoth on par with Viacom and NBC – and has stirred up much criticism in the process.
Clear Channel is to comment on allegations that they are a radio monopoly.
www.sfbg.com /36/30/news_clearchannel.html   (1385 words)

  
 TomPaine.com - Alito's Clear And Present Danger
Gore) Roberts made clear that his political beliefs will guide his interpretations.  If there are doubts about his agenda, and where his loyalties lie, I'd suggest that this should bury them.
As the Oregon opinion reminds us, the threat of Alito's nomination isn't abstract.  It's a clear and present danger that can only be stopped by our Senators finding the courage to challenge an administration that respects only power.
That means using the filibuster to talk about the assaults by this administration and their judicial surrogates on our democracy and on our ability to address our most urgent common problems.
www.tompaine.com /articles/2006/01/24/alitos_clear_and_present_danger.php   (330 words)

  
 TAP: Vol 12, Iss. 4. The Clear and Present Danger. Robert B. Reich.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Of much greater significance and far greater danger is W.'s decision to embark upon a massive military buildup, including a huge missiledefense shield.
Rumsfeld was a founding member of the Committee on the Present Danger, which effectively undermined President Jimmy Carter's arms control policies.
He was the first major advocate of the MX missile, and he was a moving force behind the Republican right's Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States, which rejected the CIA's more moderate 1995 estimate of the ABM threat.
www.prospect.org /print/V12/4/reich-r.html   (749 words)

  
 Clear And Present Danger Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Clear And Present Danger, Phillip Noyce, Tom Clancy, Harrison Ford, Anne Archer, Willem Dafoe, Benjamin Bratt, Thora Birch...
The Clear and Present Danger of the Sociopathic Insanity of David H....
A federal judge has ruled that a Greenfield truck driver accused of being an Iraqi agent presents a "clear and present danger" to the public and should not be freed before his trial later this month.
ezgifts.info /clear-and-present-danger   (1106 words)

  
 How Danger Becomes "Clear and Present"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
This week, as the congressional debate over a resolution authorizing war goes full throttle, it will feature multiple references to "clear and present danger." Iraq is a clear and present danger, the argument in broad terms will go, and something must be done to counter it, with war a possibility.
Neither side objects to the term "clear and present danger," and indeed it suffices as a way of framing the debate.
The initial case was Schenck vs. United States, decided in 1919, and its backdrop was World War I. Charles Schenck, a leader in the Socialist Party, mailed circulars to potential draftees urging them to assert their rights in opposition to the war and sign an anti-draft petition.
www.weeklystandard.com /Content/Public/articles/000/000/001/746piwrd.asp   (571 words)

  
 LA Weekly   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Reports released last month by the South Coast Air Quality Management District (AQMD) show just how dangerous it can be to breathe the air in parts of Los Angeles County where these minute particles are fouling people’s bodies and becoming lodged in their lungs and hearts.
The highest cancer rates in the county are found near the twin ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, where as many as one of every 200 residents is expected to get a pollution-related cancer during their lifetime.
People deserve to know the dangers they face in breathing the air, and what is being done to improve it.
www.laweekly.com /ink/05/44/clear-kelly2.php   (7023 words)

  
 George W Bush A Clear And Present Danger:
September 11 was a crime against humanity but from Afghanistan to Iraq, and now in Israel, Bush has blazed a purposeless trail of destruction and multiplied the dangers of terrorism a thousand-fold.
George W Bush is a clear and present danger to the world.
And we are all under threat until this bumbling oaf is removed from office and confined to a remote Texas cow ranch where he truly belongs.
www.informationclearinghouse.info /article6039.htm   (1018 words)

  
 Muslim Anti-Semitism: A Clear and Present Danger
Judaism itself is presented as a sinister, immoral religion, based on cabals and blood rituals, while Zionists are systematically equated with or identified as criminal racists or Nazis.
Despite the darkness of the present phase in Muslim-Jewish relations, it is useful to remember that there have been moments of peace and harmony as well as of bitter conflict in this long history of interaction.
Such actions are today presented as being typical of the deceitful, treacherous, and scheming nature of the Jews as depicted in the Koranic text.
www.mideastnewswire.com /archive/muslim_antisem_danger.html   (15499 words)

  
 Clear and Present Danger
Framed on the wall behind him is a kind of ironworkers creed.
"I wrote that." Recited aloud, it is a blue-collar ode to skill, hard work and danger.
"Danger is my constant companion, and instant death lurks around every corner," it says in part.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/08/AR2005060801836.html   (762 words)

  
 Albert Burns -- A Clear And Present Danger!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Let's examine another clear and present danger which we, as Americans, face.
These treaties are now a clear and present danger to the continued freedom of us all.
In 1920, (Missouri vs. Holland), the Supreme Court decided that powers, reserved by Amendment 10 to the States or the people, could be transferred to the federal government by a treaty, in other words, a direct REVERSAL of the intent of the Tenth Amendment.
www.newswithviews.com /Burns/albert.htm   (857 words)

  
 CNN.com - N-terror: 'Clear and present danger' - November 2, 2001
I mean they have come to realise that nuclear terrorism is not just a remote possibility -- it's a clear and present danger," says ElBaradei.
The danger is made worse by the 380 recorded cases of illicit trafficking in radioactive materials since 1993, according to the IAEA.
Experts agree that if terrorists were to get hold of nuclear material, they could turn it into a potentially devastating weapon.
archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/11/02/gen.nuclear.threat   (457 words)

  
 Clear and Present Danger   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Amazon.com: At the end of the prologue to Clear and Present Danger, Clancy writes, "And so began something that had not quite begun and would not soon end, with many people in many places moving off in directions and on missions which they all mistakenly thought they understood.
Ultimately, Clear and Present Danger is about good conscience, law, and politics, with Jack Ryan and CIA agent John Clark as its dual heroes.
Along with the usual, stunning array of military hardware and the latest techno-gadgets, Clear and Present Danger further develops the relationships and characters that Clancy fans have grown to love.
isbn.nu /0425122123   (647 words)

  
 Alert   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
So the architect was devastated recently when she discovered that a breathtaking, $10 million building she had helped design was a death trap for songbirds.
But even dazed survivors aren't out of danger, explains a mortified Brady: "We put a reflecting pool at the base of one of the curtain walls—so some of the birds fall in and drown." About two dozen birds have died at the building since it opened last fall, she estimates, including hermit thrushes and warblers.
For instance, he wants to compare bird strikes at the building's fritted and clear panes—and even hopes to install "thump" sensors that will allow researchers to videotape the behavior of birds that collide with the clear panes.
magazine.audubon.org /features0403/alert.html   (2272 words)

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