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Lucas surveyed his peers to compile a list of the top American speeches of the twentieth century. Here he discusses good speechmaking, and the speaking skills of William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow.

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Sign Me Up Dismiss. Though best known for his role in the Scopes monkey trial, Darrow argued before the Supreme Court that the government's conspiracy and treason laws were unconstitutional violations of the First Amendment. He lived and practiced law during a period of unprecedented upheaval and profound change in the United States. The transition from a largely rural and agricultural society to an industrialized and urbanized nation created sharp contrasts between the wealthy and the new working-poor class.

Darrow considered the conditions the poor faced in the new industrial society inhuman and unjust. Darrow believed that such restrictions were unconstitutional.

Of all the threats to freedoms of speech, of the press, and to gather and to petition the government, the most sinister, Darrow thought, was the increasing use of conspiracy laws to combat labor unrest and other forms of dissent. Such laws both increased the potential severity of sentences and criminalized the discussion of or dissemination of information or ideas that were directed at improving the lot of the working class.

In Darrow had the chance to argue against conspiracy laws in front of the Supreme Court. View all posts by Dean. Skip to content. Neal was also the author of a bill that set up the county school system in Tennessee. John R. Published by Dean Born and raised in Dayton Tennessee, I have served in various public service positions in the past. The presiding judge, John T. Raulston, had proposed holding the trial outdoors in a tent that would accommodate twenty thousand.

Reporters assembled from as far away as London and Hong Kong. Mencken chronicled the trial for the Baltimore Sun. Years later, the U. Supreme Court struck down a similar Arkansas law in Epperson v. Arkansas , finding that it violated the establishment clause of the First Amendment.

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