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Repressive jurisprudence in the early American republic : the First amendment and the legacy of English law /
"This volume seeks to explain how American society, which had been capable of noble aspirations such as those in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, was capable of adopting one of the most widely deplored statutes of our history, the Sedition Act of 1798. It examines how the p...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Political and jurisprudential worlds in conflict in the new Republic
- Politics in the new Republic
- Criminal libel in the colonies, the states, and the early Republic during the Washington administration
- Federalist partisan use of seditious libel : statutory and common law : during the tumultuous Adams administration
- Criminal libel during the Jefferson and Madison administrations 1800-1816
- Partisan prosecutions for criminal libel in the state courts : federalists against republicans, republicans against federalists, and republicans against dissident republicans in struggles for party control
- Established jurisprudential doctrines (other than criminal libel) available in the New Republic for suppression of anti-establishment speech
- Still other nineteenth-century doctrines for suppression of anti-establishment speech : the law of blasphemy and the slave-state anti-abolition statutes
- Conclusion.