Schenck v. United States
In the case of Schenck v. United States, the Supreme Court ruled that the right to free speech can be limited during wartime if it creates a “clear and present danger”: “When a nation is at war many things that might be said in time of peace are such a hindrance to its effort that their utterance will not be endured so long as men fight and that no Court could regard them as protected by any constitutional right.”
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