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Supreme Court decides Gitlow v. New York

The Supreme Court upheld Benjamin Gitlow's conviction but held that the First Amendment's free-speech protections apply to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment.

Gitlow established the principle of incorporation, extending federal constitutional protections against state action and setting a precedent for later civil liberties expansion.

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