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Sweezy v. New Hampshire  

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  • At issue in Sweezy v. New Hampshire (1957) was whether a state investigation of alleged subversive activities deprived a speaker at a university of due process of law under the Fourteenth Amendment. Ultimately, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the New Hampshire attorney general's investigation did violate the speaker's constitutional rights. [Source: Encyclopedia of Law and Higher Education; Sweezy v. New Hampshire]

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  • 1957

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