Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.: Dissent in Abrams v. United States - Milestone Documents

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.: Dissent in Abrams v. United States

( 1919 ) Commentary by Lisa Paddock, Independent Scholar, Cape May County, New Jersey

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Debs Eugene V. Debs, a Socialist American labor leader who was imprisoned for antiwar statements during World War I
Frohwerk Jacob Frohwerk, who was fined and imprisoned for helping to prepare antidraft articles during World War I and whose appeal was denied in Frohwerk v. United States
litmus paper paper that turns various colors to indicate the acidity or baseness of a substance

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