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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... reminded by Barbara K. Lewalski , " [ John ] Milton's argument [ in the Areopagitica ] , couched in poetic imag- ery and high rhetoric , has become a cornerstone in the liberal defense of freedom of speech , press , and thought . " This ...
... reminded of this when it is recalled that the Puritans who ended up in an austere region along the Atlantic coast had evidently hoped , upon leaving Europe , to settle much farther south . Such observations can lead one to wonder how ...
... reminded everyone of Churchill's career . He was , for half a century , preeminently a man of the House of Commons . The Parliament to which he devoted himself , it should also be remem- bered , is very much , as it is literally , a ...
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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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