William B Prendergast
Biographic Data
| ID | 1324213 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William B Prendergast |
| GIVEN NAMES | William B |
| FAMILY NAME | Prendergast |
| SIGNATURE | PRENDERGAST W B |
| AFFILIATIONS | United States Naval Academy |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1950 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
No Soft Options
Do State Antisubversive Efforts Threaten Civil Rights
In general, these laws prohibit activities which the most ardent civil libertarian is unlikely to defend as an exercise of a right. Red-flag laws, which today clutter up the statute books of thirty-four states, do pose a problem for the civil libertarian. A ban on the display of an emblem, innocuous in itself, is hardly consonant with the right of free speech. Yet to discuss such statutes as a genuine threat to civil liberty in 1951 would be whip…
State Legislatures and Communism
The prosecution of the cold war on the domestic front was a major concern of the state legislatures which convened in 1949. Quantitatively, last year's output of state laws against subversive movements surpassed that of any other year in our history except 1919. It was a rare hopper which did not receive at least a sprinkling of bills of this sort. And the fact that no more than fifteen states enacted anti-Communist laws can be attributed in larg…
State Legislatures and Communism
The prosecution of the cold war on the domestic front was a major concern of the state legislatures which convened in 1949. Quantitatively, last year's output of state laws against subversive movements surpassed that of any other year in our history except 1919. It was a rare hopper which did not receive at least a sprinkling of bills of this sort. And the fact that no more than fifteen states enacted anti-Communist laws can be attributed in larg…
State Legislatures and Communism
The prosecution of the cold war on the domestic front was a major concern of the state legislatures which convened in 1949. Quantitatively, last year's output of state laws against subversive movements surpassed that of any other year in our history except 1919. It was a rare hopper which did not receive at least a sprinkling of bills of this sort. And the fact that no more than fifteen states enacted anti-Communist laws can be attributed in larg…
Do State Antisubversive Efforts Threaten Civil Rights
In general, these laws prohibit activities which the most ardent civil libertarian is unlikely to defend as an exercise of a right. Red-flag laws, which today clutter up the statute books of thirty-four states, do pose a problem for the civil libertarian. A ban on the display of an emblem, innocuous in itself, is hardly consonant with the right of free speech. Yet to discuss such statutes as a genuine threat to civil liberty in 1951 would be whip…
No Soft Options
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