ABSTRACT
Freedom is not easy. Freedom is uncomfortable. The First Amendment is a tragic amendment in that it infiicts a great deal of pain on a lot of people.1
—writer Kurt Vonnegut
The question is whether a statute authorizing such proceedings in restraint of publication is consistent with the conception of the liberty of the press as historically conceived and guaranteed. In determining the extent of the constitutional protection, it has been generally, if not universally, considered that it is the chief purpose of the guaranty to prevent previous restraints upon publication. The struggle in England, directed against the legislative power of the licenser, resulted in renunciation of the censorship of the press.2
