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Excerpt from Amnesty and Pardon for Political Prisoners: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Sixty-Sixth Congress, Third Session
It was said that we could not win the war unless we violated the Constitution of the United States by suppressing minority opinion. I never shared that view. I feel that it was a mistaken idea, and I feel that it was unwise for us to enter upon the policy of attempting to preserve our constitutional Government by a flagrant violation of a constitutional principle. This resolution calls for a recommendation of amnesty for those who have been imprisoned for Opinions held or words expressed. All of those in prison for words spoken or an opinion expressed are, in our judgment, in prison in violation of the first amendment of the Constitution Of the United States, which prohibits Congress from enacting an statute abridging the right of freedom of speech. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
