Lobbying: Hearings, Ninety-second Congress, First Session, on H.R. 5259, Legislative Activities Disclosure Act. March 16 and 24, 1971, Volumes 2 à 3U.S. Government Printing Office, 1971 - 145 pages |
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Page 85 - It may be that it is the obnoxious thing in its mildest and least repulsive form; but illegitimate and unconstitutional practices get their first footing in that way, namely, by silent approaches and slight deviations from legal modes of procedure.
Page 85 - Our form of government is built on the premise that every citizen shall have the right to engage in political expression and association. This right was enshrined in the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights. Exercise of these basic freedoms in America has traditionally been through the media of political associations.
Page 87 - At one extreme is criminal conduct which cannot have shelter In the First Amendment. At the other extreme are regulatory measures which, no matter how sophisticated cannot be employed in purpose or in effect to stifle, penalize, or curb the exercise of First Amendment rights . " Justices Frankfurter and Clark filed concurring opinions.
Page 86 - The decision was based on the particular character of the Klan's activities, involving acts of unlawful intimidation and violence, which the Court assumed was before the state legislature when it enacted the statute, and of which the Court itself took judicial notice.
Page 49 - ... (3) Domestic travel excluded. For purposes of this subsection, travel outside the United States does not include any travel from one point in the United States to another point in the United States.
Page 86 - It is hardly a novel perception that compelled disclosure of affiliation with groups engaged in advocacy may constitute as effective a restraint on freedom of association...
Page 86 - Inviolability of privacy in group association may in many circumstances be indispensable to preservation of freedom of association, particularly where a group espouses dissident beliefs.
Page 88 - The strong associational interest in maintaining the privacy of membership lists of groups engaged in the constitutionally protected free trade in ideas and beliefs may not be substantially infringed upon such a slender showing as here made by the respondent.
Page 51 - The Board shall have authority from time to time to make, amend, and rescind such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. Such rules and regulations shall be effective upon publication in the manner which the Board shall prescribe.
Page 68 - C. 52:13C-31. False Communication or Signature; Penalty. 14. Any person who shall transmit, utter or publish to the Legislature or the Governor or his staff any communication relating to any legislation or be a party to the preparation thereof, knowing such communication or any signature thereto is false, forged, counterfeit, or fictitious, shall upon conviction, be guilty of a misdemeanor.