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The Declaration of the Rights of Man2 and the French Constitution of 1791 proclaim freedom of discussion and the liberty of the press in terms which are still cited in text-books3 as embodying maxims of French jurisprudence.
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Duguit et Monnier, Les Constitutions et les principales lois politiques de la France depuis 1789 (1898), Constitution du 3 Sept. 1791, p. 1.
Bourguignon, Elements généraux de Législation française (1873), p. 468.
Déclaration des droits art. 11, Plouard, Les Constitutions françaises (1871–1876), p. 16; Duguit et Monnier, op. cit. p. 1.
Odgers, Libel and Slander, Introduction (3rd ed., 1896), p. 12.
See Stephen, Digest of the Criminal Law (6th ed., 1904), arts. 96, 97, 98. [To secure a conviction a clear incitement to violence must be proved; The King v. Aldred (1909) 22 Cox 1; The King v. Caunt (1937) unreported.—En.] 2 Ibid. arts. 179–183.
Compare Odgers, Libel and Slander (6th ed., 1929), eh. xiv, with 1st ed., 1881, pp. 13–16.
The Queen v. Pooley (1857), cited Stephen, Digest of the Criminal Law (7th ed., 1926), p. 160, note 2.
See Rocquain, L’Esprit révolutionnaire avant la Révolution (1878), for a complete list of “Livres Condamnés” from 1715 to 1789. Rocquain’s book is full of information on the arbitrariness of the French Government during the reigns of Louis XV and Louis XVI.
See Duguit, Traité de Droit constitutionnel (2nd ed., vol. v, 1925), ch. iii, para. 35, pp. 414, 415.
See for the control exercised over the press down to 1695, Odgers, Libel and Slander (6th ed., 1929), pp. 10–12;
Holdsworth, History of English Law, vol. vi (1924), pp. 360–379, and vol. x (1938), pp. 28, 29.
Gardiner, History of England, vol. vii (1884), pp. 51, 130; ibid., vol. viii (1884), pp. 225, 234; Holdsworth, op. cit., vol. vi (1924), pp. 367–370.
See Selden’s remarks on the illegality of the decrees of the Star Chamber, cited Gardiner, History of England, vol. vii (1884), p. 51.
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Dicey, A.V. (1979). The Right to Freedom of Discussion. In: Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17968-8_7
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