Legal Opinion
The Socialist Workers Party v. Attorney General John L. Hill and Mayor Louie Welch, Individually and in Their Representative Capacities
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided November 8, 1973No. 72-3325PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CLARK, Circuit Judge:
We are all Republicans — we are all Federalists. If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it. So spoke Thomas Jefferson, the author of the Declaration of Independence, in his first inaugural address as the third President of the United States, March 4, 1801.(a) No person shall be permitted to have his name appear upon the official ballot as a candidate or nominee for any public office…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Bond v. FloydSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- Gunn v. University Committee to End the War in Viet NamSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
- Cole v. RichardsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Socialist Workers Party v. MartinDistrict Court, S.D. Texas · 1972
3Cited by5 opinions
- H. K. Porter Company, Inc., a Delaware Corporation v. Metropolitan Dade County, a Florida Municipal CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1981
- Socialist Workers Party v. HardyDistrict Court, E.D. Louisiana · 1977
- Dalack v. VILLAGE OF TEQUESTA, FLORIDADistrict Court, S.D. Florida · 2006
- Gough v. StateNew Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division · 1995
- Socialist Workers Party v. HillCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1973