Free Speech League

Examples of Free Speech League in the following topics:

• The League of Nations

  • The league was the brainchild of U.S.
  • President Woodrow Wilson, who first unveiled the idea in his famed speech to Congress on January 18, 1918 outlining the Fourteen Points, his blueprint for global postwar peace and diplomacy.
  • Representation at the league was often a problem.
  • Harding, continued American opposition to the League of Nations.
  • The league cannot be labeled a failure, however, as it laid the groundwork for the United Nations, which replaced the League of Nations after World War II and inherited a number of agencies and organizations founded by the league.

• The Populist Party and the Election of 1896

  • He gave speeches, organized meetings, and adopted resounding resolutions that eventually culminated in the founding of the American Bimetallic League, which then evolved into the National Bimetallic Union, and finally the National Silver Committee.
  • The ultimate goal of the League was to garner support on a national level for the reinstatement of the coinage of silver.
  • Jones of the St Louis Post-Dispatch was put on the platform committee and Bryan's plank for free silver was adopted sixteen to one, and silently added to the Chicago Democratic Platform in order to avoid controversy.
  • Bryan delivered speeches across the country for free silver from 1894 to 1896, building a grass-roots reputation as a powerful champion of the cause.
  • His "Cross of Gold" speech made him the sensational new face in the Democratic party.

• Freedom of Speech

  • Within these limited areas, other limitations on free speech balance rights to free speech and other rights, such as rights for authors and inventors over their works and discoveries (copyright and patent), protection from imminent or potential violence against particular persons (restrictions on fighting words), or the use of untruths to harm others (slander).
  • Commercial speech.
  • Certain exceptions to free speech exist, usually when it can be justified that restricting free speech is necessary to protect others from harm.
  • The government may set up time, place, or manner restrictions to free speech.
  • This image is a picture of the free speech zone of the 2004 Democratic National Convention.

• Wilson's Fourteen Points

  • Wilson's speech translated many of the principles of Progressivism that had produced domestic reform in the U.S. into foreign policy objectives for all nations, including free trade, open agreements, democracy, and self-determination.
  • Restoration of the Balkan nations and free access to the sea for Serbia.
  • Protection for minorities in Turkey and the free passage of the ships of all nations through the Dardanelles.
  • Establishment of a League of Nations to protect "mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small nations alike."
  • Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points speech outlined his goals for postwar cooperation.

• Domestic Conservatism

  • Davis (1924) and Al Smith (1928), who mobilized businessmen into the American Liberty League.
  • Opposition to the New Deal also came from the Old Right, a group of conservative free-market anti-interventionists, originally associated with midwestern Republicans led by Hoover and Robert A.
  • His first radio speech was broadcast on September 15, 1939 over all three of the major radio networks.
  • Lindbergh urged listeners to look beyond the speeches and propaganda they were being fed and instead look at who was writing the speeches and reports, who owned the papers, and who influenced the speakers.
  • Nothing did more to escalate the tensions than the speech he delivered to a rally in Des Moines, Iowa on September 11, 1941.

• The Progressive Stake in the War

  • While many historians disagree over the exact dates of the Progressive Era, most see World War I as a globalized expression of the American movement, with Wilson's fight for the League of Nations envisioned in his Fourteen Points as its climax.
  • The Fourteen Points was a speech given by Wilson to a joint session of Congress on January 8, 1918.
  • Delivered 10 months before the armistice with Germany, the speech became the basis for the terms of the German surrender as negotiated at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919.
  • Wilson's speech translated many of the principles of Progressivism that had produced domestic reform in the U.S. into foreign policy encompassing free trade, open agreements, democracy, and self-determination, which was the ideal of nations determining their own futures without outside political or military interference.
  • The speech was the only explicit statement of aims by any of the nations involved in World War I and led to Wilson receiving the 1919 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to create a peaceful global community.

• The Inspirational Speech

  • You have come to fight as free men, and free men you are.
  • Some of the most famous inspirational speeches in history include Martin Luther King Jr.'
  • Kennedy's inauguration speech.
  • You have come to fight as free men, and free men you are.
  • An inspirational speech straight out of Hollywood in the Mel Gibson classic, Braveheart.

• The Speech to Secure Goodwill

  • Goodwill speeches are informative while at the same time persuasive.
  • Perhaps one of the most famous goodwill speeches was made by President John F.
  • Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free.
  • All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin.
  • And, therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words, "Ich bin ein Berliner. "

• Producing an Emotional Appeal

  • s "I Have a Dream" speech .
  • The speech uses rhetoric to convey the point of equal opportunity for all people.
  • He closes his speech with the repeated line, "Free at last!"
  • s "I Have a Dream" speech.
  • Identify the components that produce an emotional appeal in a speech

• Civil Liberties in Wartime

  • In their view, the public was making its own attempts to punish unpopular speech due to the government's unwillingness or inability to do so.
  • The acts met considerable opposition in the Senate, almost entirely from Republicans like Henry Cabot Lodge and Hiram Johnson, the former defending free speech and the latter assailing the administration for failing to use laws already in place.
  • Attorney General Gregory supported the work of the American Protective League (APL), which was one of the many patriotic associations that sprang up to support the war and, in coordination with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, identify anti-war organizations and those it deemed slackers, spies or draft dodgers.
  • In a July 1917 speech, Max Eastman complained that the government's ongoing aggressive prosecutions of dissent meant, "You can't even collect your thoughts without getting arrested for unlawful assemblage."
  • Debs, the Socialist Party presidential candidate in 1904, 1908 and 1912, was arrested in June 1918 for making a speech in Canton, Ohio, denouncing military conscription and urging listeners not to take part in the draft.