Free speech when constitutionalism was unpopular /

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Author / Creator:	Weinrib, Laura M., author.
Imprint:	Chicago, Illinois : Law School, University of Chicago, Nov. 7, 2012.
Description:	1 online file (1 audio file) (47 min., 08 sec.) : digital, stereo, MP3.
Language:	English
Series:	Chicago's best ideas Chicago's best ideas.
Subject:	Freedom of speech -- United States. Constitutional law -- United States. Constitutional law. Freedom of speech. United States.
Format:	Spoken word recording Audio E-Resource Streaming Audio
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9117053

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Other authors / contributors:	University of Chicago. Law School, hosting institution.
Computer file characteristics:	MP3.
Sound characteristics:	digital stereo
Digital file characteristics:	audio file MP3 128Kbps
Notes:	Recorded Nov. 7, 2012, posted Jan. 3, 2013.
Summary:	"In the mid-1930s, the future of judicial review was uncertain. Politicians, social activists, and even legal academics denounced the federal judiciary's hostility toward New Deal legislation as a threat to democratic progress and economic recovery. In the face of President Roosevelt's "court-packing plan" and competing proposals to curb judicial power, conservative lawyers sought strategies for restoring popular faith in the federal courts. Their solution, Professor Weinrib will argue, was to embrace a cause they had long denounced as a front for radical activity: the judicial protection of free speech. After decades of heated clashes, the American Bar Association joined forces with its long-time adversary, the American Civil Liberties Union, to celebrate the First Amendment. In a self-conscious attempt to improve its public image, it recast the federal judiciary as a defender of personal liberties as well as economic rights. The new civil liberties consensus produced an unprecedented but durable commitment to a constitutional and counter-majoritarian theory of free speech."--Law School faculty podcast webpage.

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