Reflections on freedom of speech and the First Amendment /
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| Author / Creator: | Anastaplo, George, 1925-2014 |
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| Imprint: | Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c2007. |
| Description: | xviii, 320 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6253659 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Part 1.
- 1. Plato's Apology of Socrates
- 2. The Ministry of St. Paul
- 3. Thomas More and Parliamentary Immunity (1521)
- 4. John Milton's Areopagitica (1644)
- 5. William Blackstone, Patrick Henry, and Edmund Burke on Liberty (1765-1790)
- 6. The Declaration of Independence (1776); the Northwest Ordinance (1787)
- 7. Constitutionalism and the Workings of Freedom of Speech
- 8. The Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom (1786)
- 9. The Emergence of a National Bill of Rights (1789-1791)
- 10. The Organization of the First Amendment
- 11. The Sedition Act of 1798
- 12. John Stuart Mill's On Liberty (1859)
- 13. Freedom of Speech and the Coming of the Civil War
- Part 2.
- 1. The Naive Folly of Realists: A Defense of Justice Black (1937-1971)
- 2. Schenck v. United States (1919); Abrams v. United States (1919)
- 3. Debs v. United States (1919); Gitlow v. New York (1925)
- 4. Winston S. Churchill and the Cause of Freedom
- 5. Dennis v. United States (1951); the Rosenberg Case (1950-1953)
- 6. Cohen v. California (1971); Texas v. Johnson (1989)
- 7. The Pentagon Papers Case (1971)
- 8. Obscenity and the Law
- 9. Private Property and Public Freedom
- 10. Buckley v. Valeo (1976)
- 11. The Regulation of Commercial Speech
- 12. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)
- 13. The Future of the First Amendment?
- Appendixes
- A. The Declaration of Independence (1776)
- B. The United States Constitution (1787)
- C. The Amendments to the United States Constitution (1791-1992)
- D. Thomas More, Petition to Henry VIII on Parliamentary Freedom of Speech (1521)
- E. The Virginia Statute of Religious Liberty (1786)
- F. Some Stages of the Religion/Speech/Press/Assembly/Petition Provisions in the First Congress (1789)
- G. The Sedition Act (1798)
- H. The Virginia Resolutions (1798)
- I. Report of a House of Delegates Minority on the Virginia Resolutions (1799)
- J. Thomas Jefferson, the First Inaugural Address (1801)
- K. Schenck v. United States Leaflet (1917)
- L. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)
- M. George Anastaplo, On the Alcatraz Imprisonment of a Convicted Soviet Spy (1954)
- N. George Anastaplo, An Obscenity-Related Case from Dallas (1989-1990)
- O. Cases and Other Materials Drawn On
- Index
- About the Author