Question

What was the important precedent set by the Gitlow v. New York case?

Answer 1

Answer: First Amendment freedoms were incorporated into the Fourteenth Amendment.

Answer 2

Answer:

In Gitlow v. New York, 268 U.S. 652 (1925), the Supreme Court voted 7-2 to uphold the constitutionality of New York's Criminal Anarchy Statute of 1902, which prohibited advocating violent overthrow of the government.