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Kent v. Dulles

Kent v. Dulles, 357 U.S. 116 (1958), is a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the court held that the government violated the right to travel and First Amendmentfree speech rights when it suspended people's passports based on their political speech. It was the first case in which the U.S. Supreme Court made a distinction between the constitutionally protected substantive due processfreedom of movement and the right to travel abroad (subsequently characterized as "right to international travel").