 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.  The Lives of the Chief Justices of England - Page 29by John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1878Full view - About this book
 | 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...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" (Freedom... | |
 | Uwe Böker, Julie A. Hibbard - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 264 pages
...officers are appointed to administer affairs, is certainly a reflection on the government. If people should not be called to account for possessing the...opinion of the government, no government can subsist. For it is very necessary for all government that the people should have a good opinion of it' 1quoted... | |
 | 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...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."23 Even... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 680 pages
...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...Opinion of the Government, no Government can subsist. For it is necessary for all GovNo. ya] A Prosecution erntnents that the People should have a good Opinion... | |
 | 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...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. And... | |
 | 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...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."102... | |
 | James Oldham - Law - 2004 - 454 pages
...generally, abolishing the requirement that the libel be directed to a specific individual: "If men should not be called to account for possessing the...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 noted... | |
 | 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...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."28 Seventeenth-century... | |
 | 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...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. And... | |
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