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Congress Shall Make No Law : the First Amendment, Unprotected Expression, and the U.S. Supreme Court.
The First Amendment declares that "Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press. ..." Yet, in the following two hundred years, Congress and the states have sought repeatedly to curb these freedoms. The Supreme Courtof the United States in turn gradually e...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham :
Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group,
2010.
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| Colección: | Free Expression in America.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The First Amendment declares that "Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press. ..." Yet, in the following two hundred years, Congress and the states have sought repeatedly to curb these freedoms. The Supreme Courtof the United States in turn gradually expanded First Amendment protection for freedom of expression but also defined certain categories of expression--obscenity, defamation, commercial speech, and "fighting words" or disruptive expression-as constitutionally unprotected. From the Alien and Sedition Act of 1798 to the most recent cases to come. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (150 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781442205123 1442205121 1442205105 9781442205109 |