Free speech, "the people's darling privilege" : struggles for freedom of expression in American history
Michael Kent Curtis (Author)
Considers key struggles for free speech in early U.S. history, most of which were settled outside the judicial arena by legislatures following public opinion
History
1 online resource (x, 520 pages).
9780822381068, 9781283023627, 9786613023629, 0822381060, 1283023628, 6613023620
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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
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
English
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