In the 1925 Case of Gitlow V

question 16

Multiple Choice

In the 1925 case of Gitlow v. New York, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that

• A) individual states may abridge the First Amendment
• B) Gitlow was guilty of criminal anarchy
• C) The New York State Supreme Court had acted correctly
• D) all of these

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