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The brainchild of a zealous and devout New England Congregationalist, Anthony Comstock, the Comstock Act (17 Stat. 599) was passed after little debate in March 1873, in the last days of Ulysses S. Grant's first term as president. ... Home > Major Acts of Congress > Comstock Act (1873)
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The famous 1873 law was championed by former United States Postal Inspector Anthony Comstock (1844 - 1915) who held Victorian moral attitudes. He was successful with seeing into United States Federal law the banning of obscene, lascivious, and profane materials through the mail.
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In 1872 Comstock set off for Washington with an anti-obscenity bill, including a ban on contraceptives, that he had drafted himself. On March 3, 1873, Congress passed the new law, later known as the Comstock Act.
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"Act for the Suppression of Trade in, and Circulation of, Obscene Literature and Articles for Immoral Use" ... The Comstock Law, passed in the United States in 1873, was part of a campaign for legislating public morality in the United States.
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In 1873 Comstock got his wish, when Congress passed An Act for the Suppression of Trade in, and Circulation of, Obscene Literature and Articles of Immoral Use. March 3, 1873, ch. 258, § 2, 17 Stat.
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That the Comstock Act of 1873 violated both the federal and state Constitutions; therefore Sanger was not guilty of a criminal act when she opened the first birth control clinic. ... After the Civil War, more rigid American attitudes had led to the passage of the Comstock Act in 1873. The law classified...
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The brainchild of a zealous and devout New England Congregationalist, Anthony Comstock, the Comstock Act (17 Stat. 599) was passed after little debate in March 1873, in the last days of Ulysses S. Grant's first term as president.
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No matter how you look at it, 1873 was a lousy year. ... And because it had nothing serious to worry about, Congress passed the "Comstock Act," defining any information about birth control as pornography.
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Essays and Term Papers on Comstock Act. ... But, her paper was banned ans not mailed out because of the Comstock Act of 1873. The Comstock Act forbidden any written information of birth control methods. ...
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