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Contested Words : Legal Restrictions on Freedom of Speech in Liberal Democracies.

In modern liberal democracies, rights-based judicial intervention in the policy choices of elected bodies has always been controversial. For some, judicial intervention has tended to trivialize and impoverish democratic politics. For others, judges are better understood as contributing to a healthy...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cram, Ian
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Farnham : Ashgate Pub., 2007.
Colección:Applied legal philosophy.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Current Controversies in Freedom of Expression
  • 2. Rights-based Judicial Review, Constitutional Cultures and Expressive Freedom
  • 3. Political Expression: Political Parties, Voters and Candidates
  • 4. Comparative Constitutional Issues Arising from the Regulation of Election Campaign Finance
  • 5. Wounding Words: The Constitutional Challenge Posed by Hate Speech in Modern Liberal Democracies
  • 6. Sexually Explicit Expression and the Courts
  • 7. Advertising, Autonomy and Proportionality: Constitutional Arguments Surrounding the Regulation of Commercial Expression
  • Conclusion: Protecting Expression as a Constitutional Value.