Free speech, "the people's darling privilege" : struggles for freedom of expression in American history /
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Author / Creator: | Curtis, Michael Kent, 1942- author. |
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Imprint: | Durham : Duke University Press, 2000. [Getzville, New York] : William S. Hein & Company, [2018] |
Description: | 1 online resource (x, 520 pages). |
Language: | English |
Series: | Constitutional conflicts HeinOnline legal classics library HeinOnline intellectual property law collection Constitutional conflicts. Legal classics library. Intellectual property law collection. |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11598424 |
Table of Contents:
- English and Colonial background
- Debate over the Sedition Act of 1798
- Sedition in the courts : enforcement and its aftermath
- Sedition : reflections and transitions
- Declaration, the Constitution, slavery, and abolition
- Shall abolitionists be silenced?
- Congress confronts the abolitionists : the Post Office and petitions
- Demand for northern legal action against abolitionists
- Legal theories of suppression and the defense of free speech
- Elijah Lovejoy : mobs, free speech, and the privileges of American citizens
- After Lovejoy : transformations
- Free speech battle over Helper's impending crisis
- Daniel Worth : the struggle for free speech in North Carolina on the eve of the Civil War
- Struggle for free speech in the Civil War : Lincoln and Vallandigham
- Free speech tradition confronts the war power
- New birth of freedom? the Fourteenth Amendment and the First Amendment
- Where are they now? a very quick review of suppression theories in the twentieth century.