Prior restraint is censorship imposed, usually by a government or institution, on expression, that ... These injunctions are considered prior restraint because potential future publications .... The first notable case in which the United States Supreme Court ruled on a prior .... In the Pentagon Papers case (New York Times
That could go both ways, maybe they didnt own a plantation or have use for a slave. But they still could support it. Or, they could be completely against it, and think its completely wrong and dehumanizing, they could help runaway slaves get to the north.
