 If people should not be called to account for possessing the people with an ill opinion of the government, no government can subsist. For it is very necessary for all governments that the people should have a good opinion of it...  Southern Review - Page 4541829Full view - About this book
 | Lee C. Bollinger, Geoffrey R. Stone - Law - 2003 - 348 pages
...dissent— "seditious libel" as it was called. As Chief Justice Holt explained in 1704: "If people should not be called to account for possessing the...with an ill opinion of the government, no government can subsist. For it is very necessary for all governments that the people should have a good opinion... | |
 | Joseph Loewenstein - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2010 - 360 pages
...v. Tutchin (1704): like Holdsworth, Seibert cites Justice Holt's appalling judgment that "If people should not be called to account for possessing the...with an ill opinion of the government, no government can subsist. For it is very necessary for all governments that the people should have a good opinion... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 680 pages
...of my own, but read to you the Words of a learned and upright Judge in a Case of the like Nature. ' To say that corrupt Officers are appointed to administer...Affairs, is certainly a Reflection on the Government. If People should not bc called to account for possessing the People with an ill Opinion of the Government,... | |
 | Uwe Böker, Julie A. Hibbard - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 264 pages
...maladministered by corrupt persons, that are employed in such or such stations either in the navy or army. To say that corrupt officers are appointed to administer...affairs, is certainly a reflection on the government. If people should not be called to account for possessing the people with an ill opinion of the government,... | |
 | James Oldham - Law - 2004 - 454 pages
...government generally, abolishing the requirement that the libel be directed to a specific individual: "If men should not be called to account for possessing...with an ill opinion of the Government, no Government can subsist."10 These remarks by Holt are part of the same passage fastened upon by Holdsworth (as... | |
 | James Sutherland - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2004 - 280 pages
...that criticism of the government of the day by mere journalists was not to be tolerated: If people should not be called to account for possessing the...with an ill opinion of the government, no government can subsist. For it is very necessary for all governments that the people should have a good opinion... | |
 | Geoffrey R. Stone - History - 2004 - 758 pages
...true libel could be criminally punished. An English court explained why this should be so: "If people should not be called to account for possessing the...with an ill opinion of the government, no government can subsist. For it is very necessary for all governments that the people should have a good opinion... | |
 | Richard Dale - Business & Economics - 2004 - 218 pages
...of John Tutchin for criticising in his Observer the administration of naval affairs: ... if people should not be called to account for possessing the people with an ill opinion of government, no government can exist. For it is very necessary for all governments that the people should... | |
 | Geoffrey R. Stone - History - 2007 - 256 pages
...government officials with misconduct. An English court explained why this should be so: "If people should not be called to account for possessing the...with an ill opinion of the government, no government can subsist. For it is very necessary for all governments that the people should have a good opinion... | |
 | 32 pages
...familiar crime of seditious libel, pithily rationalized by Chief Justice Holt in 1704 :» If people should not be called to account for possessing the...with an ill opinion of the government, no government can subsist. For it is very necessary for all governments that the people should have a good opinion... | |
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