 | Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - 1837 - 812 páginas
...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. In all prosecutions...be acquitted; and the jury shall have the right to determine the law and fact. Mr. DORAN also submitted the following resolution, which was laid on the... | |
 | La Roy Sunderland - 1837 - 152 páginas
...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. In all prosecutions,...be acquitted, and the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the fact. Pennsylvania. The printing presses shall be free to every person who... | |
 | Julius Rubens Ames - 1837 - 244 páginas
...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. In all prosecutions...be acquitted ; and the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the fact. Arms — RISING SUN. Supporters — LIBERTY AND JUSTICE. PENNSYLVANIA.... | |
 | Esek Cowen, New York (State). Supreme Court - 1837 - 826 páginas
...and appearance were highly disgraceful, and such as to warrant the charges in the alleged libel; 4. That the matter charged as libellous is true, and was published with good motives and for justifiable ends ; 5. That the plaintiff has been often drunk and intoxicated when... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1838 - 354 páginas
...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. In all prosecutions...be acquitted ; and the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the fact. 9. The assent of two thirds of the members elected to each branch of... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - 1838 - 1012 páginas
...Maclay Thomas Woodward Crum Martin Porter, Northam. Cunningham Preset pro tern. 58 lowing, viz: " la all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth...be acquitted, and the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the fact." The said amendment being under consideration, A motion was made by... | |
 | 1841 - 460 páginas
...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. In all prosecutions,...be acquitted ; and the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the fact. 9. The assent of two-thirds of the members elected to each branch of... | |
 | New York (State). Secretary's Office - 1842 - 266 páginas
...l"e piess. ble for the abuse of that right ; and no law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press. In all prosecutions...acquitted ; and the jury shall -have the right to determine the law and the fact. SEC. IX. The assent of two-thirds of the members Two-third elected... | |
 | New Jersey - 1842 - 1396 páginas
...of speech or of the press. In all prosecutions or indictments for libel, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury; and if it shall appear to the...as libellous is true, and was published with good motives and for justifiable ends, the parly shall be acquitted ; and the jury shall have the right... | |
 | 1843 - 434 páginas
...speech, or of the press. In all prosecutions, or indictments for libels, the truth may bo given in evidence to the jury: and if it shall appear to the...ends, the party shall be acquitted ; and the jury ihall have the right to determine the law and the fact. 9. The assent of two-thirds of the members... | |
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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 libellous is true, and was published with good motives, and for justifiable ends, the... 
