TY  - BOOK
AU  - Anastaplo,George
TI  - Reflections on freedom of speech and the First Amendment
SN  - 9780813191737 (pbk. : alk. paper)
AV  - KF 4772 .A96 2007
U1  - 342.7308/53 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Lexington, Ky.
PB  - University Press of Kentucky
KW  - United States
KW  - Constitution
KW  - 1st Amendment
KW  - Local
KW  - Freedom of speech
KW  - History
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 300-304) and index; Plato's Apology of Socrates -- The ministry of St. Paul -- Thomas More and parliamentary immunity (1521) -- John Milton's Areopagitica (1644) -- William Blackstone, Patrick Henry, and Edmund Burke on liberty (1765-1790) -- The Declaration of Independence (1776), the Northwest Ordinance (1787) -- Constitutionalism and the workings of freedom of speech -- The Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom (1785) -- The emergence of a national bill of rights (1789-1791) -- The organization of the First Amendment -- The Sedition Act of 1798 -- John Stuart Mill's On Liberty (1859) -- Freedom of speech and the coming of the Civil War -- The naive folly of realists : a defense of Justice Black (1937-1971) -- Schenck v. United States (1919), Abrams v. United States (1919) -- Debs v. United States (1919), Gitlow v. New York (1925) -- Winston S. Churchill and the cause of freedom -- Dennis v. United States (1951), the Rosenberg Case (1950-1953) -- Cohen v. California (1971), Texas v. Johnson (1989) -- The Pentagon Papers Case (1971) -- Obscenity and the law -- Private property and public freedom -- Buckley v. Valeo (1976) -- The regulation of commercial speech -- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) -- The future of the First Amendment?
ER  -