UID:
almafu_9959677542002883
Format:
1 online resource (534 p.)
ISBN:
1-283-02362-8
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9786613023629
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0-8223-8106-0
Series Statement:
Constitutional conflicts
Content:
Considers key struggles for free speech in early U.S. history, most of which were settled outside the judicial arena by legislatures following public opinion.
Note:
Includes index.
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English and Colonial background -- Debate over the Sedition Act of 1798 -- Sedition in the courts : enforcement and its aftermath -- Sedition : reflections and transitions -- Declaration, the Constitution, slavery, and abolition -- Shall abolitionists be silenced? -- Congress confronts the abolitionists : the Post Office and petitions -- Demand for northern legal action against abolitionists -- Legal theories of suppression and the defense of free speech -- Elijah Lovejoy : mobs, free speech, and the privileges of American citizens -- After Lovejoy : transformations -- Free speech battle over Helper's impending crisis -- Daniel Worth : the struggle for free speech in North Carolina on the eve of the Civil War -- Struggle for free speech in the Civil War : Lincoln and Vallandigham -- Free speech tradition confronts the war power -- New birth of freedom? the Fourteenth Amendment and the First Amendment -- Where are they now? a very quick review of suppression theories in the twentieth century.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8223-2529-2
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9780822381068
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