In Memoirs v. Massachusetts, 383 U. S. 413, the court ruled that sex was " a great and mysterious motive force in human life ", and that its expression in literature was protected by the First Amendment.

Miller was convicted by the Superior Court of Orange County, California ( the state trial court ) of having violated California Penal Code 311. 2 by mailing unsolicited sexually explicit material in violation of a California statute that fulfilled the criteria of the obscenity test formulated in the previous similar case of Memoirs v. Massachusetts.

In Memoirs v. Massachusetts, 383 U. S. 413 ( 1966 ), a plurality of the Court further redefined the Roth test by holding unprotected only that which is " patently offensive " and " utterly without redeeming social value ," but no opinion in that case could command a majority of the Court either, and the state of the law in the obscenity field remained confused.

However, in 1966 it became the subject of a famous U. S. Supreme Court judgment 383 U. S. 413 A Book Named " John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure " v. Attorney General of Massachusetts, holding that under the U. S. Constitution a modicum of merit precluded its condemnation as obscene.

iiL ; " Memoirs ," in Naval Chronicle, i. 353-93 ; and Charnock, Biographia Navalis, v. 204-28.

Memoirs v. Massachusetts,, was the United States Supreme Court decision that attempted to clarify a holding regarding obscenity made a decade earlier in Roth v. United States ( 1957 ).

The book in question in this case was Fanny Hill ( or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, 1749 ) by John Cleland and the Court held in Memoirs v. Massachusetts that, while it may fit the first two criteria ( it appealed to prurient interest and was patently offensive ), it could not be proven that Fanny Hill had no redeeming social value.

Memoirs v. Massachusetts led to more years of debate about what was and was not obscene and the conferring of more power in these matters to proposers of local community standards.

In Memoirs v. Massachusetts, 383 U. S. 413 ( 1966 ), a plurality of the Court further redefined the Roth test by holding unprotected only that which is " patently offensive " and " utterly without redeeming social value ," but no opinion in that case could command a majority of the Court either, and the state of the law in the obscenity field remained confused.

The Warren Court ( 1953 – 1969 ) expanded civil liberties and in Memoirs v. Massachusetts and other cases curtailed the ability of municipalities to regulate the content of literature, plays, and movies.

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Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Science of the United States of America v. 68 167-180.

Series: Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, v. 149 ISSN: 0065-9738.

* Free speech: New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, Brandenburg v. Ohio, Yates v. United States, Roth v. United States, Jacobellis v. Ohio, Memoirs v. Massachusetts, Tinker v. Des Moines School District

* v. Berlichingen, G .: Memoirs, around 1560 ; rediscovered and first published for wider circulation in 1731.

In The Memoirs Of A Shy Pornographer ( 1945 ) Patchen exploited this national sentiment by making his hero, Albert Budd, a private detective.

: Memoirs of the 10th Mountain Division in World War II.

He wrote a number of books and papers two of which are of immense importance namely ( 1 ). India in Transition, about the prepartition politics of India and ( 2 ). World Enough & Time-The Memoirs of Sir Sultan Mohammed Shah, Aga Khan III, his autobiography.

* Aga Khan III, " Memoirs of Aga Khan: World Enough and Time ", London: Cassel & Company, 1954 ; published same year in the United States by Simon & Schuster.

Memoirs have often been written by politicians or military leaders as a way to record and publish an account of their public exploits.

The term may also apply to works of fiction purporting to be autobiographies of real characters, e. g., Robert Nye's Memoirs of Lord Byron.

* Hector Berlioz, The Memoirs of Hector Berlioz, trans.

Memoirs of the Duke of Marlborough: vol. i. London, ( 1847 )

Memoirs, vol i. Prion Books Ltd., ( 1999 ).

There is an abundance of autobiographical information on Goldoni, most of which comes from the introductions to his plays and from his Memoirs.

However, he relates in his Memoirs that a considerable part of his time was spent in reading Greek and Latin comedies.

In his Memoirs Goldoni amply discusses the state of Italian comedy when he began writing.

Chiang Kai-shek's Secret Past: The Memoirs of His Second Wife.

The earliest written reference to crochet refers to slip stitch crochet | shepherd's knitting from The Memoirs of a Highland Lady by Elizabeth Grant ( 1797 – 1830 ) in the 19th century.

Memoirs of a Counterrevolutionary.

Later, Defoe wrote Memoirs of a Cavalier ( 1720 ), set during the Thirty Years ' War and the English Civil War.

In 1831 he published a short popular account of the philosopher's life in Murray's Family Library ; but it was not until 1855 that he was able to issue the much fuller Memoirs of the Life, Writings and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton, a work which embodied the results of more than 20 years ' investigation of original manuscripts and other available sources.

( 2005 ): Article in Memoirs of the Queensland Museum.

Famous authors of the city include Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Muriel Spark, author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, James Hogg, author of The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Ian Rankin, author of the Inspector Rebus series of crime thrillers, J. K. Rowling, the author of Harry Potter, who began her first book in an Edinburgh coffee shop, Adam Smith, economist, born in Kirkcaldy, and author of The Wealth of Nations, Sir Walter Scott, the author of famous titles such as Rob Roy, Ivanhoe and Heart of Midlothian, Robert Louis Stevenson, creator of Treasure Island, Kidnapped and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting.

Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns: Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779 – 1822.

* The Memoirs of John M. Regan, a Catholic Officer in the RIC and RUC, 1909 – 48, Joost Augusteijn, editor, Witnessed Rising, ISBN 978-1-84682-069-4.

* Buell, Rowena: The Memoirs of Rufus Putnam, Houghton, Mifflin, and Co., The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts ( 1903 ).

* Irish Renaissance: A Gathering of Essays, Memoirs and Letters from the Massachusetts Review ( 1965, with David R. Clark )

* Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of the State of Massachusetts.

* Nice Web version of the Baldwin article from Historic Homes and Places and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs relating to the Families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts by W. R. Cutter published 1908, pages 9 – 22 of Volume 1, also see Volume 2, Volume 3, Volume 4.

* Historic Homes & Places and Genealogical & Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Middlesex County Massachusetts by William Richard Cutter, published 1908.

* Nice Web version of the Baldwin article from Historic Homes and Places and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs relating to the Families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts by W. R. Cutter published 1908, pages 9 – 22 of Volume 1, also see Volume 2, Volume 3, Volume 4.

* Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of the State of Massachusetts.