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The bad tendency test is a test derived from English Common law. It asks whether the words spoken have a "tendency to bring about evil consequences" rather than asking whether the words bring about "an immediate substantive evil", which is what the clear and present danger test asks.
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What tendency of Americans did the nineteenth-century writer Alexis de Tocqueville identify as distinctive of your democratic culture?
the tendency to form associations
What three tests does the supreme court use to set limits on free speech?
1. The "clear and present danger" rule. 2. The bad tendency doctrine. 3. The preferred position doctrine.
What is the general tendency of a president's popularity?
Presidents usually start out popular and decline over the next four years.
What voting block is most important in republican politics?
As a small business owner, I would say that people who have worked very hard and have a vested interested in hard-work-based growth of this nation have a great tendency to vote Republican. Also important is the flip-side of this answer: People with no interest in hard work or the growth of prosperity have a tendency to vote for Democrats. (this is not purely indicting to the poor, as I would venture to say that those of vast inherited wealth have a tendency to be liberal in correlative fashion equal to the amount of work they have invested in their own financial statuses...)
Who did the political party the Whigs represent in 1830 England?
The Whigs were a parliamentary tendency who agreed that parliament should have more power and the King, less.
