Free Speech, The People's Darling Privilege: Struggles for Freedom of Expression in American HistoryDuke University Press, 17.11.2000 - 533 Seiten Modern ideas about the protection of free speech in the United States did not originate in twentieth-century Supreme Court cases, as many have thought. Free Speech, “The People’s Darling Privilege” refutes this misconception by examining popular struggles for free speech that stretch back through American history. Michael Kent Curtis focuses on struggles in which ordinary and extraordinary people, men and women, black and white, demanded and fought for freedom of speech during the period from 1791—when the Bill of Rights and its First Amendment bound only the federal government to protect free expression—to 1868, when the Fourteenth Amendment sought to extend this mandate to the states. A review chapter is also included to bring the story up to date. Curtis analyzes three crucial political struggles: the controversy that surrounded the 1798 Sedition Act, which raised the question of whether criticism of elected officials would be protected speech; the battle against slavery, which raised the question of whether Americans would be free to criticize a great moral, social, and political evil; and the controversy over anti-war speech during the Civil War. Many speech issues raised by these controversies were ultimately decided outside the judicial arena—in Congress, in state legislatures, and, perhaps most importantly, in public discussion and debate. Curtis maintains that modern proposals for changing free speech doctrine can usefully be examined in the light of this often ignored history. This broader history shows the crucial effect that politicians, activists, ordinary citizens—and later the courts—have had on the American understanding of free speech. Filling a gap in legal history, this enlightening, richly researched historical investigation will be valuable for students and scholars of law, U.S. history, and political science, as well as for general readers interested in civil liberties and free speech. |
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... prior approval before a book or newspaper was published ( prior restraint ) and did not block punishment after publica- tion . At any rate , and for whatever reason , in the trial and later appeal of the antislavery minister , the North ...
... prior approval before a book or newspaper was published ( prior restraint ) and did not block punishment after publica- tion . At any rate , and for whatever reason , in the trial and later appeal of the antislavery minister , the North ...
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... prior restraint . Many had repudiated the bad tendency approach . Similarly , by 1866 there was a widespread belief that freedom of speech was a privilege or immunity of American citizenship that limited , or should limit , state ...
... prior restraint . Many had repudiated the bad tendency approach . Similarly , by 1866 there was a widespread belief that freedom of speech was a privilege or immunity of American citizenship that limited , or should limit , state ...
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... prior restraint , truth did not justify criticisms of government or its officials , and the law punished circulation of ideas with a tendency to cause harm . ( A major harm was bringing govern- ment or its officers into disrepute ; the ...
... prior restraint , truth did not justify criticisms of government or its officials , and the law punished circulation of ideas with a tendency to cause harm . ( A major harm was bringing govern- ment or its officers into disrepute ; the ...
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... prior restraint . The claim that " no prior restraint " is the full definition of free press will make a number of appearances in the free speech stories that follow , as will the claim for a broader role for the jury in free speech ...
... prior restraint . The claim that " no prior restraint " is the full definition of free press will make a number of appearances in the free speech stories that follow , as will the claim for a broader role for the jury in free speech ...
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... prior restraint kept from the jury and in the hands of the government the larger question of whether the con- tents of the book were unlawful - whether the book or newspaper was one people should be permitted to read . A major theme in ...
... prior restraint kept from the jury and in the hands of the government the larger question of whether the con- tents of the book were unlawful - whether the book or newspaper was one people should be permitted to read . A major theme in ...
Inhalt
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2 The Debate over the Sedition Act of 1798 | 52 |
Enforcement and Its Aftermath | 80 |
Reflections and Transitions | 105 |
5 The Declaration the Constitution Slavery and Abolition | 117 |
6 Shall Abolitionists Be Silenced? | 131 |
The Post Office and Petitions | 155 |
Transformations | 246 |
12 The Free Speech Battle over Helpers Impending Crisis | 271 |
The Struggle for Free Speech in NorthCarolina on the Eve of the Civil War | 289 |
Lincoln and Vallandigham | 300 |
15 The Free Speech Tradition Confronts the War Power | 319 |
16 A New Birth of Freedom? The Fourteenth Amendment and the First Amendment | 357 |
17 Where Are They Now? A Very Quick Review of Suppression Theories in the Twentieth Century | 384 |
Conclusion | 414 |
8 The Demand for Northern Legal Action Against Abolitionists | 182 |
9 Legal Theories of Suppression and the Defense of Free Speech | 194 |
Mobs Free Speech and the Privileges of American Citizens | 216 |
Notes | 438 |
Index | 513 |
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1st Sess abolition abolitionists Abraham Lincoln abridge Adams advocated American American Anti-Slavery Society antislavery speech argument arrest bad tendency Bill of Rights Boston Calhoun Cato's Letters Cincinnati citizens Civil clause Congress Constitution criticism debate defense democracy Democrats Detroit Free Press dissent Emancipator expression federal Federalists Fourteenth Amendment free speech tradition freedom of speech Globe guarantees Helper's book hereafter ideas immunities incendiary insisted issue James Jefferson John judges jury Justice legislature liberty limited Lincoln Lovejoy Lovejoy's Madison Massachusetts meeting ment newspaper North Carolina Northern Ohio opinion opponents papers party petition political popular Post president prior restraint privileges prosecutions protection punish rejected Republicans resolutions right of free Sedition Act seditious libel Senator slave slaveholders slavery South Southern speech and press statute suggested suppression supra note Supreme Court tion treason trial truth United Vallandigham violation violence Virginia Whig William William Ellery Channing York