The First Amendment, freedom of speech : its constitutional history and the contemporary debate /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2009.
Description:304 p. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Series:Bill of Rights series
Bill of Rights series (Amherst, N.Y.)
Subject:United States. -- Constitution. -- 1st Amendment
Constitution (United States)
Freedom of speech -- United States -- History.
Constitutional history -- United States.
Constitutional history.
Freedom of speech.
United States.
History.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7624526
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Varying Form of Title:Freedom of speech
Other authors / contributors:Amar, Vikram.
ISBN:9781591026327 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1591026326 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
Table of Contents:
  • Series Editor's Preface
  • Introduction Guided Tour
  • Part I. Historical Foundations
  • Commentaries on the Laws of England
  • Free Speech in War Time
  • Righting the Balance: An Inquiry into the Foundations and Limits of Freedom of Expression
  • Seditious Libel and the Lost Guarantee of Freedom of Expression
  • The Origins of the Press Clause
  • Part II. Theoretical Paradigms
  • Must Speech Be Special?
  • Free Speech Now
  • Scope of the First Amendment: Freedom of Speech
  • The First Amendment Is an Absolute
  • Equality as a Central Principle in the First Amendment
  • Part III. Selected Doctrinal Battlegrounds
  • Content Regulation and the First Amendment
  • Rules of Engagement for Cultural Wars: Regulating Conduct, Unprotected Speech, and Protected Expression in Anti-Abortion Protests
  • The Concept of the Public Forum
  • The Case of the Missing Amendments: R.A.V. v. City of St. Paul
  • Public Response to Racist Speech: Considering the Victim's Story
  • Compelled Subsidization of Speech: Johanns v. Livestock Marketing Association
  • Political Money and Freedom of Speech
  • From Watergate to Ken Starr: Potter Stewart's "Or of the Press" a Quarter Century Later
  • Appendixes
  • Constitution of the United States of America
  • The Amendments to the Constitution