...reflection on government was libellous, and, in particular, that 'To say that corrupt officers arc appointed to administer affairs is certainly a reflection on the government. If people should not be called to account for possessing the people with an ill opinion of the government,...

...did not), and they should heed the words of another judge, whom Justice DeLancey quoted: If people should not be called to account for possessing the...with an ill opinion of the government, no government can subsist, for it is very necessary for all governments that the people should have a good opinion...

...was applied in cases involving the growing and increasingly troublesome periodical press. "If people should not be called to account for possessing the...with an ill opinion of the government, no government can subsist," Chief Justice John Holt said at the seditious libel trial of newspaper publisher John...

...justification. Chief Justice John Holt's famous opinion in 1704 held through the century: "If people should not be called to account for possessing the...with an ill opinion of the government, no government can subsist. For it is very necessary for all governments that the people should have a good opinion...

...learned and upright judge, in a case of the like nature [Lord Chief Justice Holt in the Tuchin case]. To say that corrupt officers are appointed to administer...affairs is certainly a reflection on the government . If people should not be called to account for possessing the people with ill opinion of the government,...

..."Scandal of government" was thought inimical to national weal. It was even thought that "[i]f people should not be called to account for possessing the...with an ill opinion of the government, no government can subsist."37 On those grounds, public disparagement of incumbent sovereigns or their governments...

...oral or written criticism of the government, or as Chief Justice Sir John Holt explained in 1704," To say that corrupt officers are appointed to administer...affairs is certainly a reflection on the government. For it is very necessary for all governments that the people should have a good opinion of it. And...

...when Chief Justice Holt ruled in 1 704 that any criticism of the government was libelous. He wrote: "To say that corrupt officers are appointed to administer...affairs is certainly a reflection on the government. If people should not be called to account for possessing the people with an ill opinion of the government,...

...Schmähung der Regierung einstufte, wenn gesagt werde, sie lasse korrupte Personen Mißwirtschaft betreiben: To say that corrupt Officers are appointed to administer...Affairs, is certainly a Reflection on the Government. If People should not be called to account for possessing the People with an ill Opinion of the Government,...

...officers, their supreme magistrate, and their legislature, he effectually saps the government. If people should not be called to account for possessing the people with an ill opinion of government, no government can subsist. For it is very necessary for all governments that the people...