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Harold J. Laski: It must not prohibit a meeting before it is held on the ground that the speaker is likely to preach sedition there.

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It must not prohibit a meeting before it is held on the ground that the speaker is likely to preach sedition there.
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Harold J. Laski

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Laski asserts that preemptively banning a meeting based on assumptions of sedition is unjust.

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