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Date: 1965Lamont v. Postmaster General
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- The Supreme Court decision in Lamont v. Postmaster General , 381 U.S. 301 (1965), invalidated a statute allowing the Postmaster General to regulate the flow of “communist political propaganda” through the mails. Lamont was the first time the Supreme Court invalidated a federal statute under the speech and press clauses of the First Amendment, the first case to hold that the First Amendment includes a “right to receive,” and the first time a justice used the phrase “marketplace of ideas” in a judicial opinion. [Source: Encyclopedia of the First Amendment; Lamont v. Postmaster General]
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- Date: 1965
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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-GC6763T0-5
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