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Free Speech, The People's Darling Privilege : Struggles for Freedom of Expression in American History /
Modern ideas about the protection of free speech in the United States did not originate in twentieth-century Supreme Court cases, as many have thought. Free Speech, "The People's Darling Privilege" refutes this misconception by examining popular struggles for free speech that stretch...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Duke University Press,
2000.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.