The excerpt below was written by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes in the decision of Schenck v. United States (1919). The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shounting fire in a theatre and causing a panic The question in everycase is whether the words used are used in such curcumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that congress has a right to prevent.

Which conduct did the U. S Supreme Court determine was a “clear and present danger” in this case?

demonstrations in which protestors burned American flags

newspaper articles criticizing U. S. entry into the war

the presence of Japanese Americans on the West Coast

the mailing of pamphlets advising young men to resist the draft