Free speech in its forgotten years / David M. Rabban.
1997
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Author
Title
Free speech in its forgotten years / David M. Rabban.
Published
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Call Number
KF4772 .R33 1997
ISBN
0521620139
Description
xi, 404 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)36800570
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1
1
The Lost Tradition of Libertarian Radicalism
23
Josiah Warren and Individualist Anarchism
26
The Comstock Act
27
The Controversy Over Cupid's Yokes
32
Lucifer: The Light-Bearer
41
The Emergence of the Free Speech Language
44
The Commitment to Free Speech for All Viewpoints
57
The Work of the Free Speech League
64
2
The IWW Free Speech Fights
77
An Overview of the Free Speech Fights
78
The IWW Ideology of Free Speech
83
Popular Reactions
88
Official Reactions
100
Analysis of Free Speech Themes
109
Regulation of Street Speaking
110
Defining the Boundaries of Protected Speech
116
Free Speech and Majority Rule
126
3
The Courts of Free Speech
129
The Bad Tendency Test
132
Topical Analysis of Free Speech Issues
146
The First Amendment and State Action
147
Postal Regulation
149
Regulation of Political Campaigns
152
Libel and Contempt
155
Regulation of Public Speaking
165
Labor Injunctions
169
Ignoring Free Speech Issues
173
The Judicial Tradition
175
4
Legal Scholarship
177
Theoretical Sources for Free Speech Views
179
The Rejection of Blackstone
189
Limiting the Bad Tendency Test
193
Alternative standards for Analyzing Free Speech Claims
200
The Heritage of Prewar Scholarship
210
5
Free Speech in Progressive Social Thought
211
John Dewey
217
Herbert Croly
232
Continuities in Dewey's Criticism of Pacifist Dissent during World War I
243
6
The Espionage Act
248
The Legislative History of the Espionage Act
249
Espionage Act Litigation in the Lower Federal Courts
255
The Selective Draft Law Cases
270
Supreme Court Briefs in the First Espionage Act Cases
272
The Supreme Court Decisions
279
The Origins of Clear and Present Danger
285
7
World War I and the Creation of the Modern Civil Liberties Movement
299
The New Civil Libertarians of the ACLU and the Demise of the Free Speech League
304
Zechariah Chafee, Jr.: The Scholars as Advocate
316
Dewey's Revised Analysis of Free Speech
335
8
Holmes, Brandeis, and the Judicial Transformation of the First Amendment after World War I
342
Supreme Court Majority Decisions in the 1920s
344
Holmes's Transformation in Abrams
346
The Contribution of Brandeis
355
The Judicial Transformation of the First Amendment
371
9
Epilogue: Current Parallels to Prewar Progressive Thought
381
Index
395