Newspaper Libels, the National Capital, and Notes of Travel (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Newspaper Libels, the National Capital, and Notes of Travel In America´s first great libel case, the prosecution of John Peter Zenger in 1735, Andrew Hamilton propounded a riddle. He wished to be informed in concise terms what is a libel. The attorney-general replied with nearly five hundred words of definition. The riddle, unanswered before, remained and still remains unanswered, though the sphinx´s question could hardly have elicited a longer and more varied list of replies. The causes of this failure are not a mystery. In the first place the term libel included at common law a whole catalogue of distinct offences, differing among themselves both in kind and degree "as murder does from robbing a hen-roost." Blackstone speaks of "blasphemous, immoral, treasonable, schismatical, seditious or scandalous libels." Attacks upon (rod, religion, morality, government and individual reputation, whether committed by writing, picture, statue, sign or gesture, were huddled together under one head. Libel, in the modern sense, is less comprehensive. The incongruous constituents of the former definition, held together only by a name, have fallen apart. 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.
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