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Reflections on freedom of speech and the First Amendment /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington, Ky. :
University Press of Kentucky,
©2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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?