"The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic... The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent." — Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Schenck v. United States, 1919
The "clear and present danger" test articulated here was crafted to justify which wartime policy?
- A
Internment of German Americans in camps in the West
- B
Selective Service registration of immigrants
- C
Federal regulation of war profiteering by munitions firms
- Dcheck_circle
Prosecution of antiwar activists under the Espionage Act of 1917
Explanation
Schenck involved a Socialist convicted under the Espionage Act for distributing antidraft leaflets; Holmes upheld the conviction.