Free speech, "the people's darling privilege: struggles for freedom of expression in American history

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 abolition...

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1. Verfasser: Curtis, Michael Kent 1942- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Durham, N.C. Duke University Press 2000
Schriftenreihe:Constitutional conflicts
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Zusammenfassung: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
Beschreibung:Includes index. - Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:x, 520 p 25 cm
ISBN:9780822381068
0822381060

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