Freedom of speech in the history of ideas : landmark cases, historic essays, and recent developments / Vincent Blasi, Corliss Lamont Professor of Civil Liberties, Columbia Law School.
Blasi, Vincent, 1943- author.
2016
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Author Blasi, Vincent, 1943- author.
Title Freedom of speech in the history of ideas : landmark cases, historic essays, and recent developments / Vincent Blasi, Corliss Lamont Professor of Civil Liberties, Columbia Law School.
Published St. Paul, MN : West Academic, [2016]
Call Number KF4772 .B585 2016
Edition Second edition.
ISBN 9781634599016
1634599012
Description xxix, 702 pages ; 26 cm.
Other Standard Identifiers 99969788166
System Control No. (OCoLC)954424482
Summary "[This book] s organized around six historic essays about the freedom of speech by James Madison, John Stuart Mill, Judge Learned Hand, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Justice Louis Brandeis, and Alexander Meiklejohn. For the most part, these classic essays advance 'instrumental' claims about how free speech serves social goods such as political legitimacy and responsiveness, the development of new knowledge and better understanding, societal adaptation to changing conditions, and the checking of abuses of power. Both the classic and the contemporary individual-centered arguments can be better understood by applying them to specific issues of First Amendment interpretation. Accordingly, this book includes virtually all of the landmark Supreme Court cases construing the speech and press clauses of the First Amendment, plus several major decisions of the last decade that have the potential to become landmark precedents."-- Back cover.
Note "A concise version of ideas of the First Amendment."
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series American casebook series.
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James Madison
John Stuart Mill
Learned hand
Oliver Wedell Holmes
Louis Brandeis
Alexander Meiklejohn
The contemporary turn toward individual-centered theories.

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