Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 320 pages)
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg. [S.l.] HathiTrust Digital Library Electronic reproduction
ISBN:
0813124247
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0813131979
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0813191734
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9780813124247
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9780813131979
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9780813191737
Inhalt:
The guarantee of free speech enshrined in the U.S. Bill of Rights draws upon two millennia of Western thought about the value and necessity of free inquiry. Acclaimed legal scholar George Anastaplo traces the philosophical development of the idea of free inquiry from Plato's Apology to Socrates to John Milton's Areopagitica. He describes how these seminal texts and others by such diverse thinkers as St. Paul, Thomas More, and John Stuart Mill influenced the formation and the earliest applications of the First Amendment. Anastaplo also focuses on the critical free speech implications of a dozen Supreme Court cases and shows how First Amendment interpretations have evolved in response to modern events. Reflections on Freedom of Speech and the First Amendment grounds its vision of America's most basic freedoms in the intellectual traditions of Western political philosophy, providing crucial insight into the legal challenges of the future through the lens of the past
Inhalt:
Plato's Apology of Socrates -- The ministry of St. Paul -- Thomas More and parliamentary immunity (1521) -- John Milton's Areopagitica (1644) -- William Blackstone, Patrick Henry, and Edmund Burke on liberty (1765-1790) -- The Declaration of Independence (1776), the Northwest Ordinance (1787) -- Constitutionalism and the workings of freedom of speech -- The Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom (1785) -- The emergence of a national bill of rights (1789-1791) -- The organization of the First Amendment -- The Sedition Act of 1798 -- John Stuart Mill's On Liberty (1859) -- Freedom of speech and the coming of the Civil War -- The naive folly of realists : a defense of Justice Black (1937-1971) -- Schenck v. United States (1919), Abrams v. United States (1919) -- Debs v. United States (1919), Gitlow v. New York (1925) -- Winston S. Churchill and the cause of freedom -- Dennis v. United States (1951), the Rosenberg Case (1950-1953) -- Cohen v. California (1971), Texas v. Johnson (1989) -- The Pentagon Papers Case (1971) -- Obscenity and the law -- Private property and public freedom -- Buckley v. Valeo (1976) -- The regulation of commercial speech -- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) -- The future of the First Amendment?
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 300-304) and index
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL
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Electronic reproduction
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Anastaplo, George, 1925- Reflections on freedom of speech and the First Amendment Lexington, Ky : University Press of Kentucky, ©2007
Sprache:
Englisch
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