Too Much Free Speech? - Couverture rigide

Bezanson, Randall P.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0252037111 ISBN 13 : 9780252037115

Editeur : University of Illinois Press, 2012

Synopsis

Randall P. Bezanson takes up an essential and timely inquiry into the Constitutional limits of the Supreme Court's power to create, interpret, and enforce one of the essential rights of American citizens. Analyzing contemporary Supreme Court decisions from the past fifteen years, Bezanson argues that judicial interpretations have fundamentally and drastically expanded the meaning and understanding of "speech."  Bezanson focuses on judgments such as the much-discussed Citizens United case, which granted the full measure of constitutional protection to speech by corporations, and the Doe vs. Reed case in Washington state, which recognized the signing of petitions and voting in elections as acts of free speech. In each case study, he questions whether the meaning of speech has been expanded too far and critically assesses the Supreme Court's methodology in reaching and explaining its expansive conclusions.

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À propos de l'auteur

Randall P. Bezanson is the David H. Vernon Professor of Law at the University of Iowa and the author of Art and Freedom of Speech, How Free Can Religion Be?, and How Free Can the Press Be?

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Illinois Press
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0252037111
• ISBN 13: 9780252037115
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 280
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• Personne responsable: non disponible