Banned(in US) WW1Socialist anti-draft pamphlet


	Banned(in US) WW1Socialist anti-draft pamphlet

tommy2balmy

7-22-2008 3:53 PM

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socialist, anti-war, anti draft, supreme court, banned in us

tommy2balmy says:

This is a portion of an anti-draft pamphlet that was put out by the Socail Democratic (Socialist) Party during World War 1. This led to a Supreme Court ruling (US vs Schenk)
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/schenk.html
While we do not have a draft now, I find the portions clipped to be quite relevant to today.

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