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Liberty of the press

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freedom to print and publish without official supervision.
the free right of publishing books, pamphlets, or papers, without previous restraint or censorship, subject only to punishment for libelous, seditious, or morally pernicious matters.

See also: Liberty Press



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To prevent therefore, for the future, such intemperate abuses of leisure, of letters, and of the liberty of the press, especially as the world seems at present to be more than usually threatened with them, I shall here venture to mention some qualifications, every one of which are in a pretty high degree necessary to this order of historians.
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry View in context
There exists at that epoch, for thought written in stone, a privilege exactly comparable to our present liberty of the press.
Notre-Dame de Paris by Hugo, Victor View in context
I ask myself how they can possibly get along without two Chambers, without the liberty of the press, without reports, without circulars even, without an army of clerks?
Bureaucracy by de Balzac, Honore View in context
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