Session #74 · 1935–37

Speech #740240826

Some of the statements made by Mr.. George Bernard Shaw during his last visit to this country might have been construed to be within the prohibitions of this bill. Regardless of what you and I may have thought of those statementspersonally I.regarded them as juveniletwiddlewe should have made ourselves the laughing stock of the world if we had undertaken to make them the ground for deportation. From the days of the alien and sedition laws to the present time. we have burned our fingers every time we have tampered with the right of free speech. England is the most successful democracy in the world. and it is significant that it is the one country in which it is almost impossible to get into jail by talking too much.
Keywords matched
deportation

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Neutral
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
90%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Legal / procedural

Speaker & context

Speaker
THEODORE CHRISTIANSON
Party
R
Chamber
H
State
MN
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
740240826
Paragraph
#0
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