Eras: 1917–1929

1917–1929

Annual Message to Congress (1907)

Source: Theodore Roosevelt, Seventh Annual Message, online, by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/206218. The conservation of our natural resources and their proper use constitute

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1917–1929

Downes v. Bidwell

Source: Downes v. Bidwell, 182 U.S. 244 (1901), available at https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/182/244/. We have removed in-text references to laws and court decisions. All footnotes provided by the editors. . . . Mr. Justice

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1917–1929

The March of the Flag Campaign Speech

Source: Albert J Beveridge, The “March of the Flag,” Beginning of Greater America [Indianapolis?] [1898], available at https://archive.org/details/marchofflagbegin00beve/page/n5/mode/2up. Fellow citizens, it is a noble land that God has given us;

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1917–1929

Whitney v. California

Source: 274 U.S. 357, https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/274/357. JUSTICE SANFORD delivered the opinion of the Court. . . . [T]he plaintiff in error[1] was charged, in five counts, with violations of the Criminal

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1917–1929

Gitlow v. New York

Source: 268 U.S. 652, https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/268/652. JUSTICE SANFORD delivered the opinion of the Court. Benjamin Gitlow was indicted in the Supreme Court of New York, with three others, for the statutory

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1917–1929

Abrams v. United States

Source: 250 U.S. 616, https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/250/616. JUSTICE CLARKE delivered the opinion of the court. On a single indictment, containing four counts, the five plaintiffs in error,[1] hereinafter designated the defendants, were

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1917–1929

Schenck v. United States

Source: 249 U.S. 47, https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/249/47. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the court. This is an indictment in three counts. The first charges a conspiracy to violate the Espionage Act of

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1917–1929

Christianity and the Social Crisis

Source: Walter Rauschenbusch, Christianity and the Social Crisis (New York: Macmillan, 1907), 247–86, available online at the Hathi Trust Digital Library: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044010386498&view=1up&seq=9. We have omitted the author’s original footnotes. Approximate

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1917–1929

Progressive Democracy

Source: Herbert Croly, Progressive Democracy (New York: Macmillan, 1914), 262–66, 268–83, available online at the Hathi Trust Digital Library: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015005355550;view=1up;seq=9. If economic, social, political, and technical conditions had remained very

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