Talk:Whitney v. California

message: The article says that the pardon was based (perhaps in part) on the Brandeis text. It would be so helpful to have a citation that demonstrates that. ( Martin |  talk • contribs  13:01, 31 July 2013 (UTC)
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message: I am trying to edit this entry because it is currently incorrect. My suggestions:
The opening sentence right now is: "Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927), was a United States Supreme Court decision upholding the conviction of an individual who had engaged in speech that raised a threat to society." This is incorrect. Whitney didn't engage in speech that raised a threat to society. I suggest changing it as follows:
"Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927), was a United States Supreme Court decision upholding the conviction of an individual accused of belonging to an organization that the state believed was a threat to society."    
The Background currently reads: "Charlotte Anita Whitney, a member of a distinguished California family, was convicted under the 1919 California Criminal Syndicalism Act for allegedly helping to establish the Communist Labor Party of America, a group charged by the state with teaching the violent overthrow of government.
Whitney denied that it had been the intention of her or other organizers for the party to become an instrument of violence."
I suggest changing it to:
"Charlotte Anita Whitney, a member of a distinguished California family, was convicted under the 1919 California Criminal Syndicalism Act for helping to establish the Communist Labor Party of America, a group charged by the state with teaching the violent overthrow of government. Whitney was in fact a pacifist who believed in working within the American political system and repeatedly ran for public office. The evidence presented at her trial focused on the platform and action of the Industrial Workers of the World, an organization to which she had contributed a small amount of money but of which she was not a member. She was in effect put on trial for her radical activities, which included fighting for gender and racial equality, and for advocating a more equitable political and economic system."
I have taken out the word "allegedly" because she never denied that she had helped to establish the Communist Labor Party. The other suggested changes reflect a careful reading of the trial transcript.
My source for all this is the trial transcript itself and my book, "Speaking Freely: Whitney v. California and American Speech Law" (University of Kansas Press, 2015) and other volumes such as Anthony Lewis, "Make No Law: The Sullivan case and the First Amendment" (Random House, 1991). Interestingly, both those references are already in the original article.
Thanks for your attention to this. I am new to Wikipedia and hope I have followed the correct procedure. Philippa Strum  
Philippa Strum (talk) 14:59, 25 November 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Pinging . GMGtalk  15:05, 25 November 2017 (UTC)
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