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In the Supreme Court Case Involving Charles Schenck, Which Tested

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In the Supreme Court case involving Charles Schenck, which tested the constitutionality of the Espionage Act, the Supreme Court decided that


A) the right to criticize government was a fundamental civil liberty that could not be infringed upon even in times of war.
B) the Constitution's guarantee of free speech was applicable only to speech that could be conclusively proven to be true.
C) freedom of speech could be curtailed if the words produced a "clear and present danger."
D) freedom of speech could be curtailed if the speech tended to encourage pernicious actions.
E) although the government could issue injunctions to prevent the media from printing materials that threatened national security, it could not punish them after the materials had been published.

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