Source
United States ex rel. Milwaukee Social Democratic Publishing Co. v. Burleson
The First Amendment Encyclopedia, Middle Tennessee State University
- Address
- https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/united-states-ex-rel-milwaukee-social-democratic-publishing-co-v-burleson/ archived copy
- Kind
- court record
- Last checked
- 2026-11-07
Cited by
- United States Postmaster General Burleson strips the Milwaukee Leader of its mailing rate
- Claim 117: The Supreme Court's majority held that the Constitution was adopted to preserve the government, not to protect those who used its privileges to try to destroy it, in upholding Burleson's revocation of the paper's mailing rate.
- Claim 118: Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes dissented, warning the ruling treated access to the mail, nearly as essential to free speech as the ability to speak, as something a postmaster could take away.
- Claim 119: Justice Louis Brandeis dissented that the majority's approach would let the Post Office run what amounted to a system of censorship.
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