Concept information
...
social history of crime
courts, corrections, punishments
United States Supreme Court
Supreme Court cases
Preferred term
Lamont v. Postmaster General
Definition
- 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 (1965)]
Broader concept
Belongs to group
Date
- 1965
URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/Lamont_v._Postmaster_General
{{label}}
{{#each values }} {{! loop through ConceptPropertyValue objects }}
{{#if prefLabel }}
{{/if}}
{{/each}}
{{#if notation }}{{ notation }} {{/if}}{{ prefLabel }}
{{#ifDifferentLabelLang lang }} ({{ lang }}){{/ifDifferentLabelLang}}
{{#if vocabName }}
{{ vocabName }}
{{/if}}