Wendell Bird
Revolution in Freedoms of Press and Speech
From Blackstone to the First Amendment and Fox's Libel ACT
Wendell Bird
Revolution in Freedoms of Press and Speech
From Blackstone to the First Amendment and Fox's Libel ACT
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This book discusses the revolutionary broadening of concepts of freedom of press and freedom of speech in Great Britain and in America in the late eighteenth century, in the period that produced state declarations of rights and then the First Amendment and Fox's Libel Act.
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This book discusses the revolutionary broadening of concepts of freedom of press and freedom of speech in Great Britain and in America in the late eighteenth century, in the period that produced state declarations of rights and then the First Amendment and Fox's Libel Act.
Produktdetails
- Produktdetails
- Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
- Seitenzahl: 408
- Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2020
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 245mm x 168mm x 35mm
- Gewicht: 758g
- ISBN-13: 9780197509197
- ISBN-10: 0197509193
- Artikelnr.: 58304482
- Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
- Seitenzahl: 408
- Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2020
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 245mm x 168mm x 35mm
- Gewicht: 758g
- ISBN-13: 9780197509197
- ISBN-10: 0197509193
- Artikelnr.: 58304482
Wendell Bird is the author of Press and Speech under Assault: The Early Supreme Court Justices, the Sedition Act of 1798, and the Campaign against Dissent (2016); and of Criminal Dissent: Prosecutions under the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 (2020). He earned a D.Phil. degree in legal history from University of Oxford, and a J.D. degree from Yale Law School. He is a Visiting Scholar at Emory University School of Law.
* List of Illustrations
* List of Abbreviations
* Introduction
* Part I The Devising of Narrow Liberties of Press and Speech
* Chapter 1: Blackstone's and Mansfield's Narrow Liberties of Press and
Speech, and Broad Crimes of Seditious Libel and Seditious Words:
Summaries or Misdescriptions of an Ancient Common Law?
* Chapter 2: The Crimes of Seditious Libel and Seditious Speech:
Weapons for Suppressing Dissent in Britain and America?
* Part II The British Broadening of Liberties of Press and Speech
* Chapter 3: The Emerging Broad British View of Freedoms of Press and
Speech, Before the Colonial Crisis
* Chapter 4: The Prevailing British View of Freedoms of Press and
Speech, in the Decade Before the American Revolution and Declarations
of Rights
* Chapter 5: The Dominant British View of Freedoms of Press and Speech,
in the Decade Before Fox's Libel Act and America's Bill of Rights
* Part III The American Development of Broad Rights of Press and Speech
* Chapter 6: The Emergence of Expansive American Views of Freedoms of
Press and Speech, Before the Colonial Crisis
* Chapter 7: Reasons for the Spread of Broad Views of Liberties of
Press and Speech in America, During and After the Colonial Crisis
* Chapter 8: The Prevailing Broad View by the Popular Party of Freedoms
of Press and Speech, in the Prerevolutionary Decade Before the
American States' Declarations of Rights
* Chapter 9: The Dominant American View of Freedoms of Press and
Speech, in the Decade Leading up to Ratification of the Federal Bill
of Rights
* Chapter 10: The Constitutional Understanding of Freedoms of Press and
Speech, and of Seditious Libel, in Discussions of State and Federal
Bills of Rights
* Epilogue
* List of Abbreviations
* Introduction
* Part I The Devising of Narrow Liberties of Press and Speech
* Chapter 1: Blackstone's and Mansfield's Narrow Liberties of Press and
Speech, and Broad Crimes of Seditious Libel and Seditious Words:
Summaries or Misdescriptions of an Ancient Common Law?
* Chapter 2: The Crimes of Seditious Libel and Seditious Speech:
Weapons for Suppressing Dissent in Britain and America?
* Part II The British Broadening of Liberties of Press and Speech
* Chapter 3: The Emerging Broad British View of Freedoms of Press and
Speech, Before the Colonial Crisis
* Chapter 4: The Prevailing British View of Freedoms of Press and
Speech, in the Decade Before the American Revolution and Declarations
of Rights
* Chapter 5: The Dominant British View of Freedoms of Press and Speech,
in the Decade Before Fox's Libel Act and America's Bill of Rights
* Part III The American Development of Broad Rights of Press and Speech
* Chapter 6: The Emergence of Expansive American Views of Freedoms of
Press and Speech, Before the Colonial Crisis
* Chapter 7: Reasons for the Spread of Broad Views of Liberties of
Press and Speech in America, During and After the Colonial Crisis
* Chapter 8: The Prevailing Broad View by the Popular Party of Freedoms
of Press and Speech, in the Prerevolutionary Decade Before the
American States' Declarations of Rights
* Chapter 9: The Dominant American View of Freedoms of Press and
Speech, in the Decade Leading up to Ratification of the Federal Bill
of Rights
* Chapter 10: The Constitutional Understanding of Freedoms of Press and
Speech, and of Seditious Libel, in Discussions of State and Federal
Bills of Rights
* Epilogue
* List of Illustrations
* List of Abbreviations
* Introduction
* Part I The Devising of Narrow Liberties of Press and Speech
* Chapter 1: Blackstone's and Mansfield's Narrow Liberties of Press and
Speech, and Broad Crimes of Seditious Libel and Seditious Words:
Summaries or Misdescriptions of an Ancient Common Law?
* Chapter 2: The Crimes of Seditious Libel and Seditious Speech:
Weapons for Suppressing Dissent in Britain and America?
* Part II The British Broadening of Liberties of Press and Speech
* Chapter 3: The Emerging Broad British View of Freedoms of Press and
Speech, Before the Colonial Crisis
* Chapter 4: The Prevailing British View of Freedoms of Press and
Speech, in the Decade Before the American Revolution and Declarations
of Rights
* Chapter 5: The Dominant British View of Freedoms of Press and Speech,
in the Decade Before Fox's Libel Act and America's Bill of Rights
* Part III The American Development of Broad Rights of Press and Speech
* Chapter 6: The Emergence of Expansive American Views of Freedoms of
Press and Speech, Before the Colonial Crisis
* Chapter 7: Reasons for the Spread of Broad Views of Liberties of
Press and Speech in America, During and After the Colonial Crisis
* Chapter 8: The Prevailing Broad View by the Popular Party of Freedoms
of Press and Speech, in the Prerevolutionary Decade Before the
American States' Declarations of Rights
* Chapter 9: The Dominant American View of Freedoms of Press and
Speech, in the Decade Leading up to Ratification of the Federal Bill
of Rights
* Chapter 10: The Constitutional Understanding of Freedoms of Press and
Speech, and of Seditious Libel, in Discussions of State and Federal
Bills of Rights
* Epilogue
* List of Abbreviations
* Introduction
* Part I The Devising of Narrow Liberties of Press and Speech
* Chapter 1: Blackstone's and Mansfield's Narrow Liberties of Press and
Speech, and Broad Crimes of Seditious Libel and Seditious Words:
Summaries or Misdescriptions of an Ancient Common Law?
* Chapter 2: The Crimes of Seditious Libel and Seditious Speech:
Weapons for Suppressing Dissent in Britain and America?
* Part II The British Broadening of Liberties of Press and Speech
* Chapter 3: The Emerging Broad British View of Freedoms of Press and
Speech, Before the Colonial Crisis
* Chapter 4: The Prevailing British View of Freedoms of Press and
Speech, in the Decade Before the American Revolution and Declarations
of Rights
* Chapter 5: The Dominant British View of Freedoms of Press and Speech,
in the Decade Before Fox's Libel Act and America's Bill of Rights
* Part III The American Development of Broad Rights of Press and Speech
* Chapter 6: The Emergence of Expansive American Views of Freedoms of
Press and Speech, Before the Colonial Crisis
* Chapter 7: Reasons for the Spread of Broad Views of Liberties of
Press and Speech in America, During and After the Colonial Crisis
* Chapter 8: The Prevailing Broad View by the Popular Party of Freedoms
of Press and Speech, in the Prerevolutionary Decade Before the
American States' Declarations of Rights
* Chapter 9: The Dominant American View of Freedoms of Press and
Speech, in the Decade Leading up to Ratification of the Federal Bill
of Rights
* Chapter 10: The Constitutional Understanding of Freedoms of Press and
Speech, and of Seditious Libel, in Discussions of State and Federal
Bills of Rights
* Epilogue