Spock-Coffin Case.

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    • Subject Terms:
      UNITED States. Constitution. Bill of Rights
    • Subject Terms:
      COFFIN, William Sloane; SPOCK, Benjamin, 1903-1998; FERBER, Michael; RASKIN, Marcus, 1934-2017
    • Abstract:
      Explores how the trial of William Sloane Coffin Jr., Michael Ferber, Mitchell Goodman, Marcus Raskin and Benjamin Spock whom the U.S. government has charged with a conspiracy to counsel and abet violations of the Selective Service Law, will help clarify the kinds of speech and protest protected by law. Forms of speech punishable under the First Amendment of the Constitution; Claims that Coffin et al has condemned the U.S. war against Vietnam as illegal and immoral and has criticized the Selective Service Act; Draft card-turn-ins as dramatic or symbolic speech.