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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... fact that the Northern States " [ had ] denounced as sinful the Institution of Slavery . " The Con- vention concluded its December 1860 cataloging of grievances with its lament that “ Sectional interests and animosity will deepen the ...
... fact that the question of obscenity is intimately related to the question of prop- erty , to the question of what one may legitimately do with one's own . Even more disturbing for them can be questions about what is truly one's own ...
... fact , I suspect it was his ingenuousness that got him mixed up in the early 1940s with people who were so vulnerable to charges of subversion , if not also of espionage . It should be noticed that serious spies have al- ways , or so it ...
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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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