 Every citizen may freely speak, write, and publish his sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that right ; and no law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech, or of the press.  Niles' National Register - Page 261819Full view - About this book
 | John Chauncey Pease, John Milton Niles - 1819 - 496 pages
...and publish his sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that liberty. § 6. No law shall ever be passed to curtail or restrain the liberty of speech or of the press. § 7. In all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth may be given in evidence, and... | |
 | New York (State). Constitutional Convention, Nathaniel Hazeltine Carter, William Leete Stone - 1821 - 718 pages
...write, and publish his sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for ihe abuse of that right, and no law shall ever be passed to curtail, or restrain the liberty of speech, or of the press ; and in all prosecutions, or indictments, for libels, the truth may be given in evidence, if... | |
 | New York (State) - 1823 - 516 pages
...right; and no law shall be passed, to restrain, or abridge the liberly of speech, or of the press. In all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth may be given in evidence, to the jury ; and if it shall appear to the jury, that the matter charged as libellous, is true, and... | |
 | 1826 - 220 pages
...that light; and no law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech, or of the press. In all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury; and if it shall appear to the jury, that the matter charged as libellous is true, and... | |
 | New York (State). Legislature - 1887 - 102 pages
...no law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press. In all criminal prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury; and if it shall appear to the jury, that the matter charged as libelous is true, and was... | |
 | James Kent - 1827 - 544 pages
...mentioned, and is not quite so latitudinary in its indulgence as some of them. It declares, that " in all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury ; and if it shall appear to the jury, that the matter charged as •ibellous, is true,... | |
 | Montgomery Robert Bartlett - 1828 - 426 pages
...right; and no law shall be passed to restrain, or abridge, the liberty of speech, or of the press. In all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury; and if it shall :ippear to the jury, that the matter charged as libellous, is true, and... | |
 | Francis Smith Eastman - 1828 - 320 pages
...that right ; and no law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech, or of the press. In all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury; and if it shall appear to the jury, that the matter charged as libellous is true, and... | |
 | 1834 - 518 pages
...now incorporated into the laws of many of the States, is introduced into this bill of rights, viz.: ' In all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth may be given in evidence; and if it shall appear to the jury, that the matter charged as libellous is true, and was published with... | |
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