Free Speech

Herausgeber: Brettschneider, Corey

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

With a historic lens to interpret modern-day issues from hate speech to obscenity, this short and accessible collection provides key classic texts to help illuminate free speech and the First Amendment, as part of the new Penguin Liberty series. A Penguin Classic Penguin Liberty is a curated series of historical, political and legal classic texts relevant to constitutional rights. This collection focuses on key historic writings about freedom of speech and its connection to the specific experiment of American liberty. The collection includes writings by the most influential thinkers of American free speech law including John Stuart Mill, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Alexander Meiklejohn. Each Penguin Liberty volume will feature a series introduction and volume introduction by series editor Corey Brettschneider.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Transworld
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 185mm x 106mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 150g
• ISBN-13: 9780143135159
• ISBN-10: 0143135155
• Artikelnr.: 60104577

Autorenporträt

Series Editor: Corey Brettschneider

Inhaltsangabe

Series Introduction by Corey Brettschneider
Introduction by Corey Brettschneider
A Note on the Text
FREE SPEECH
Part I: Frameworks of Free Speech
U.S. Constitution Speech or Debate Clause, Art. 1 Sec. 6, and First
Amendment (1787)
On Liberty, by John Stuart Mill (1859)
Free Speech and Its Relation to Self-Government, by Alexander Meiklejohn
(1948)
Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969)
Part II: The Press
The Alien Act (1798)
The Sedition Act (1798)
The Virginia Resolution—Alien and Sedition Acts (1798)
The Kentucky Resolution—Alien and Sedition Acts (1799)
New York Times Company v. Sullivan (1964)
Part III: Race and Gender
“Plea for Freedom of Speech in Boston,” by Frederick Douglass (1860)
“Lynch Law in All Its Phases,” by Ida B. Wells (1893)
“Model Antipornography Civil Rights Ordinance,” by Catherine MacKinnon
(1983)
“If He Hollers Let Him Go,” by Charles Lawrence (1990)
Virginia v. Black (2003)
Part IV: Security and Wartime
Schenck v. United States (1919)
Abrams v. United States (1919)
Acknowledgments
Unabridged Source Materials