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incitement  

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  • Many Supreme Court cases upholding restrictions on speech believed to be subversive have relied on the idea that such speech is forbidden because it incites, or is likely to lead to, violence or illegal actions. In applying the clear and present danger test in Schenck v. United States (1919), Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. [Source: Encyclopedia of the First Amendment; Incitement]

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