Fully revised and updated, this title examines topical issues such as free speech and freedom of the press, as well as considering other important developments and legislation.
Freedom of Speech
The volumes begin with brief colonial history, discussing the war fought by American Revolutionaries to gain independence from Great Britain - and their opportunity to decide what rights every American should possess.
Sixty-two years later, the FBI did not even bother to investigate three Republican candidates for Congress endorsed by the Tea Party movement—Sharron Angle, Stephen Broden, and Rick Barber—who argued during the 2010 campaign that ...
What types of expressions and behavior should be treated as "speech" for constitutional purposes? Must freedom of speech include the right of access to the media? And what is its...
Today, in democracies and authoritarian states around the world, it is on the retreat. In Free Speech, Jacob Mchangama traces the riveting legal, political, and cultural history of this idea.
Leading members of the Federalist Party , which controlled Congress at the time , already were agitated by the rhetoric and maneuverings of the rival Republican Party , led by Adams's vice president , Thomas Jefferson .
The effect was like the effect on the anti - Vietnam War movement when J. William Fulbright , chair of the Senate Foreign ... Now ( in 1838 ) Representative Slade's “ speech , which is as full of Anti - Slavery doctrine as possible ...
This book provides the background necessary to understanding the importance of free speech on campus and offers clear prescriptions for what colleges can and can’t do when dealing with free speech controversies.
Smolla and Nimmer on Freedom of Speech: A Treatise on the First Amendment
In The Free Speech Century, two of America's leading First Amendment scholars, Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone, have gathered a group of the nation's leading constitutional scholars--Cass Sunstein, Lawrence Lessig, Laurence Tribe, ...