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The Incorporation Doctrine. The Gitlow case was the first time the Supreme Court was asked to consider whether the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution incorporated the Bill of Rights into the states' constitutions. While the court upheld the lower court decision and refused to overturn Gitlow's conviction, the case lead to future Supreme Court decisions incorporating the Bill of Rights into state constitutions.

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Publishing a socialist newspaper. -Apex


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The case involving Benjamin Gitlow, known as Gitlow v. New York (1925), was not overturned; it established the precedent that the First Amendment's free speech protections apply to state governments through the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause. The Supreme Court upheld Gitlow's conviction for distributing socialist materials, ruling that states could restrict speech that poses a "dangerous tendency." While the decision itself was not overturned, it laid the groundwork for future cases that expanded First Amendment protections.


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