Reflections on Freedom of Speech and the First AmendmentUniversity Press of Kentucky, 16. feb. 2007 - 336 sider 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 to John Milton's Areopagitica. He describes how these seminal texts and others by such diverse thinkers as St. Paul, Thomas More, and John Stuart Mill influenced the formation and the earliest applications of the First Amendment. Anastaplo also focuses on the critical free speech implications of a dozen Supreme Court cases and shows how First Amendment interpretations have evolved in response to modern events. Reflections on Freedom of Speech and the First Amendment grounds its vision of America's most basic freedoms in the intellectual traditions of Western political philosophy, providing crucial insight into the legal challenges of the future through the lens of the past. |
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... Amendment . ( See , for a sequel to that 1970s debate , the addendum for this preface . ) The background and enduring principles of the First Amendment are examined in Part One of the Reflections in this volume . Related materials ...
George Anastaplo. 10. The Organization of the First Amendment I The First Amendment is the only article in the Bill of Rights that is explicitly directed at the Congress . Two other proposed amendments , the first and the second of the ...
... Amendment of , the Constitution of the United States , Proposed by Congress and Ratified by the Several States , Pursuant to the Fifth Article of the Original Constitution Amendment I [ 1791 ] Congress shall make no law respecting an ...
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