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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... noticed is the Habeas Corpus Act of 1679 , which provided “ a second magna carta as beneficial and effectual as that of Runing - Mede . " Blackstone goes so far as to suggest , Magna carta only in general terms , declared , that no man ...
... noticed that a recognition of the long - standing rights of the English - speaking peoples is evident in the Ninth Amendment . The insistence there upon rights not enumerated , we have also noticed , was provided as an assurance to ...
... noticed ) a visit to Galileo , who was ending his life under house arrest . What shapes a people to have the dominant inclinations it may chance to have , whether it is for liberty or for love or for piety ? For example , the centuries ...
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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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