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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... Particularly to be noticed is the sup- pression of recourse to “ wild and new - fangled treasons , ” a recourse which is particularly ominous for a proper freedom of speech . It is the useful- ness of an unfettered parliamentary freedom ...
... particularly open to liberty . He was reinforced in this belief by what he had observed during a Continental trip , which had included ( we have noticed ) a visit to Galileo , who was ending his life under house arrest . What shapes a ...
... particularly effective in dramatizing heroic exploits — his own , those of his illustrious family , those of comrades ( such as the Royal Air Force ) , or those of his country and its allies . Heroism was particularly to be enlisted in ...
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The Ministry of St Paul | 9 |
John Miltons Areopagitica 1644 | 20 |
The Declaration of Independence 1776 the Northwest Ordinance | 36 |
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