Source: https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/158/532/
Timestamp: 2019-04-25 13:57:58+00:00

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The United States are a nation whose powers of government, legislative, executive, and judicial, within the sphere of action confided to it by the Constitution, are supreme and paramount. Every right created by, arising under, or dependent upon the Constitution may be protected and enforced by such means and in such manner as Congress, in the exercise of the correlative duty of protection, or of the legislative powers conferred upon it by the Constitution, may in its discretion deem most eligible and best adapted to attain the object. Logan v. United States, 144 U. S. 293.
Among the rights and privileges which have been recognized by this Court to be secured to citizens of the United States by the Constitution are the right to petition Congress for a redress of grievances, United States v. Cruikshank, 92 U. S. 542, 92 U. S. 553, and the right to vote for Presidential electors or members of Congress, Ex Parte Yarbrough, 110 U. S. 651, and the right of every judicial or executive officer, or other person engaged in the service or kept in the custody of the United States, in the course of the administration of justice, to be protected from lawless violence. There is a peace of the United States. In re Neagle, 135 U. S. 1, 135 U. S. 69; United States v. Logan, above cited.
communication for which no action of libel or slander will lie, and the disclosure of which cannot be compelled without the assent of the government. Vogel v. Gruaz, 110 U. S. 311; United States v. Moses, 4 Wash. C.C. 726; Worthington v. Scribner, 109 Mass. 487.
17 U. S. 4 Wheat. 316, 17 U. S. 424.

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