<span>Tokugawa Ieyasu, through years of war and political maneuvering, eventually was able to get the emperor to make him Shogun of Japan sometime just after 1600. This was a shogunate that lasted from 1600 to 1868 (the year it officially ended), and was the actual ruling office of the country, as the emperor was just a figurehead.
In this Supreme Court case, the court
ruled that the First Amendment protected free speech and that the prior rulings
were a violation of freedom of the Press which is protected in the
Constitution. As a result, the court overturned thr prior conviction